Love is in the area: Hackney Valentine’s Day listings
Our guide to some of the more offbeat V Day events – plus, we ask local politicians: what’s the most romantic spot in Hackney?
Read MoreMaking Her Mark: new exhibition shows that women’s activism in Hackney didn’t end after 1918
The stories of Hackney’s female activists over the past century are being celebrated at Hackney Museum – plus, a chance to nominate your own inspirational local women
Read MoreThe Spread Eagle, Homerton, pub/restaurant review: spread your (vegan chicken) wings
In search of a range of opinions, our reviewer brought his vegan girlfriend and devoutly carnivorous parents to this hot new vegan pub and Mexican kitchen
Read MoreBorough now fifth worst in UK for child poverty, new report finds
Council says its work to tackle the issue is being ‘put at risk’ by government cuts
Read MoreHackney to get three more cycle routes
London Cycling Campaign welcomes plans announced by Mayor of London
Read MoreCladding at four Hackney blocks to be replaced as tests reveal it fails current fire safety standards
Council says cladding is not the same as that found on Grenfell Tower and there are ‘no immediate fire safety concerns’
Read MoreTitbits – Lying little rags and political handbags
Plus ça change – it’s the monthly column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Road to ruin
The current approach to public consultations could lead to good schemes falling by the wayside
Read MoreCouncil tackles 3,000 urgent fire safety issues discovered post-Grenfell
Mayor says council is ‘working flat out’ to act on FRAs as front doors are checked on estates
Read MorePretty in Punk: Julia Gorton’s photos of the NYC punk and No Wave scene get an airing in Dalston nightspot
Photographer Julia Gorton was a doyenne of the New York music scene in the late 70s. Some of the images she produced in that period are currently on show at Untitled on Kingsland Road – we went down to check it out
Read MoreHolocaust Memorial Day: Powerful testimony as Hackney remembers ‘defining event in human history’
Survivor Manfred Goldberg delivers harrowing personal account at Town Hall ceremony
Read MoreThe Brook, Hackney Central, restaurant review: fresh and fun vegan food
The vegan-serious, the vegan-curious and incorrigible carnivores alike will find something tasty to tuck into at this quirky restaurant and cocktail bar
Read MorePawnography: Hackney Chess Club turn unlikely fashion icons for Korean clothing brand CHANCECHANCE
Photographer Wendy Huynh decked the club out in coats and tops from the Seoul-based company’s Winter collection, for a Stoke Newington fashion shoot
Read MoreHackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block
Queensbridge Road property is first in borough to get sprinklers since the Grenfell fire – due to the high average age of residents
Read MoreHackney Council reaffirms efforts to make borough ‘dementia-friendly’ at Town Hall meeting
Cllr Yvonne Maxwell’s motion was welcomed by the Alzheimers’ Society
Read MoreOwner of vandalised Churchill-themed café in Hackney hits back at critics
Blighty UK’s Chris Evans was attacked in the media after the Finsbury Park eatery was targeted by protesters
Read MoreCommunity group running Hackney’s only solar-powered public toilet ‘outraged’ as council pulls plug
Town Hall will not renew Clapton Improvement Society’s lease for Brooksby’s Walk loos due to concerns over income and health and safety
Read MoreSchool cleaners call off Hackney strike
Union lifts threat following compromise over pay and contracts
Read MoreWhat’s the Point? Our guide to the hidden gems set to appear at Victoria Park music festival All Points East
With yesterday’s addition of seven bands to The National’s headline bill, we take a look at some of the undercard highlights of the six-date jamboree
Read MoreLondon Fields cinema apologises for Kevin Spacey ‘oversight’
Institute of Light used an old poster for ‘All the Money in the World’ featuring the disgraced star
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