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Council tackles 3,000 urgent fire safety issues discovered post-Grenfell

By Adam Barnett | Friday 2 February 2018 at 07:57

Mayor says council is ‘working flat out’ to act on FRAs as front doors are checked on estates

Pretty in Punk: Julia Gorton’s photos of the NYC punk and No Wave scene get an airing in Dalston nightspot

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 January 2018 at 16:13

Richard Hell, of The Voidoids and founding member of Television, was one of Gorton's smilier subjects. Photograph: Julia Gorton

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

Holocaust Memorial Day: Powerful testimony as Hackney remembers ‘defining event in human history’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 January 2018 at 12:36

Survivor Manfred Goldberg delivers harrowing personal account at Town Hall ceremony

The Brook, Hackney Central, restaurant review: fresh and fun vegan food

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 January 2018 at 11:03

Tapas style: The Brook does a great line in fried vegan goodies to share. Photograph: The Brook

The vegan-serious, the vegan-curious and incorrigible carnivores alike will find something tasty to tuck into at this quirky restaurant and cocktail bar

Pawnography: Hackney Chess Club turn unlikely fashion icons for Korean clothing brand CHANCECHANCE

By Andrew Barnes | Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 12:37

King of fashion: detail from the CHANCECHANCE shoot with Hackney Chess Club. All photographs: Wendy Huynh

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

Hackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 11:36

Queensbridge Road property is first in borough to get sprinklers since the Grenfell fire – due to the high average age of residents

Hackney Council reaffirms efforts to make borough ‘dementia-friendly’ at Town Hall meeting

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 09:02

Cllr Yvonne Maxwell’s motion was welcomed by the Alzheimers’ Society

Owner of vandalised Churchill-themed café in Hackney hits back at critics

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 29 January 2018 at 16:24

Blighty UK’s Chris Evans was attacked in the media after the Finsbury Park eatery was targeted by protesters

Community group running Hackney’s only solar-powered public toilet ‘outraged’ as council pulls plug

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 29 January 2018 at 12:03

Town Hall will not renew Clapton Improvement Society’s lease for Brooksby’s Walk loos due to concerns over income and health and safety

School cleaners call off Hackney strike

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 January 2018 at 14:04

Union lifts threat following compromise over pay and contracts

What’s the Point? Our guide to the hidden gems set to appear at Victoria Park music festival All Points East

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 January 2018 at 13:34

Art-pop: Yeah Yeah Yeahs made a return to the stage last year following a hiatus

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

London Fields cinema apologises for Kevin Spacey ‘oversight’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 January 2018 at 11:46

Institute of Light used an old poster for ‘All the Money in the World’ featuring the disgraced star

Hackney Council stands by traffic plans despite fears for children’s health

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 January 2018 at 17:14

William Patten parents’ group says Walford Road proposals could increase asthma risk

Holocaust Memorial Day: Jewish and Islamic school choirs to sing together in ‘show of love’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 January 2018 at 14:35

Children to perform Michael Jackson’s ‘Heal the World’ at Town Hall service

Pride in your image: young and old LGBTQI+ locals come together for a pair of artistic Hackney Museum exhibits

By Andrew Barnes | Wednesday 24 January 2018 at 16:53

Badges of honour: Project Indigo worked with artist Liv Wynter to make their voices heard. Photograph: Hackney Council

Out and About and From Bedroom to Battleground will be open in time for LGBT History Month, after the Council spent a year collecting historical testimony and artefacts from the community

Hackney to start a housing company offering Living Rents to help fund more council homes

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 January 2018 at 15:24

Cabinet approves ‘significant’ plans to get around government housing restrictions

Hackney’s older women are the emerging artists you need to be looking out for in 2018

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 January 2018 at 11:58

No stereotype: GRACE present a very different image of the aging woman that can be found in almost any other media. Photographs: GRACE

Maisie Linford met with one of the founders of GRACE, ahead of their new residency, for a chat about fighting the “narrow stereotypes” of aging women using art and performance – including an impromptu strip-off

Hackney Council awarded £250k to help child asylum seekers

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 January 2018 at 13:28

Photograph: Metropolico.org (Creative Commons)

Funding will be used to recruit more carers for kids who arrive in the borough alone

Concert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for February ’18

By Andrew Barnes | Tuesday 23 January 2018 at 12:32

Syrian singer Omar Souleyman plays Oval Space next month. Photograph: Stuart Sevastos / Wikimedia Commons

Blissful electronica, a Syrian superstar and the ‘rinsin’ sound’ of a pair of 2000s legends – it’s all in this month’s gig guide

Rashan Charles: Death ‘most likely’ caused by attempt to swallow package

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 January 2018 at 16:21

Post-mortem found no injuries to suggest excessive restraint, police watchdog reveals