GP practice for homeless people wins ‘Outstanding’ rating from health watchdog
Greenhouse Surgery director describes Care Quality Commission accolade as ‘an honour’ and welcomes ‘wonderful’ feedback from patients
Read MoreCampaigners ‘mystified’ over Diane Abbott’s failure to sign fossil fuel pledge
Hackney MP’s team cites ‘Shadow Cabinet protocol’ and unfair media scrutiny
Read MoreResidents to boycott Finsbury Park Post Office stationery shop over merger
Campaigners hoping to save the current Crown Post Office drum up support as deadline for public consultation looms
Read MoreOlder people’s charity urges Hackney residents to ‘make a difference’ in new pilot project
Royal Voluntary Service launches trial in the borough which aims to reduce loneliness and ambulance call-outs for elderly neighbours
Read MoreEx-Hackney bigwig plugs hate crime app in acid attacks letter – despite her own statistics
Only one of London’s 526 acid attacks is being treated as a hate crime
Read MoreMIRRORS Festival tickets go on sale and first wave of lineup announced
The initial bundle of bands includes Los Campesinos!, the British country-rock stylings of Ultimate Painting and the buttoned-up New Jersey indie of Pinegrove
Read MoreA-level results: Hackney falls short of national average despite rise in top grades
Borough’s 2017 cohort defies curriculum upheaval to maintain the gradual improvement in grades seen over recent years
Read MoreWoodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition
Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies
Read MoreRashan Charles: Full inquest delayed until next June
Grieving family must wait 10 months as coroner says it is ‘impossible to hold it sooner’
Read MoreHackney students get their A-level results
On the day pupils get their grades, we bring you the latest from schools across the borough
Read MoreHomebrewing: Forest Road brewer gives advice on how to make it WORK
The story of Forest Road Brewing Company’s pale ale WORK began in Pete Brown’s Dalston garden – we bring you his tips on creating your own batches of beautiful beer
Read MoreLondon Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow
LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil
Read MoreVisions Festival / Institute of Light / Billy Smokes review: out here in the Fields
Find out why last weekend’s music festival was “irritating but frequently brilliant – much like London Fields itself”…
Read MoreMayor hails reopening of ‘fascinating’ Abney Park Chapel
‘Huge milestone’ reached as Stoke Newington’s gothic landmark is made available to the public for the first time since 2013
Read MoreLGBT campaigners victorious as Joiners Arms saved from demolition – for now
‘The Joiner’s Arms is more than just a pub. It’s a community to the people who went there.’
Read MoreLondon Fields Lido reopening faces further delay
Council to ‘announce opening date soon’ as swimming pool refurbishment is hit by fresh setbacks
Read MoreGrenfell: Public inquiry must be ‘broad and open’, says Hackney’s mayor
Philip Glanville says ‘no stone must be left unturned’, including the role of contractors, as he sets out Town Hall’s position in letter to inquiry chief
Read MoreHackney students on new blog: ‘the common room conversations just weren’t cutting it’
Neetu Singh has the scoop on Twenty Minutes Till Bedtime, a new site chock full of opinion pieces on global affairs created, funded and managed solely by A-Level students at Mossbourne Community Academy
Read More‘Senseless’: Hackney Wick campaigners renew calls to halt Vittoria Wharf demolition
Local politicians also express concerns over LLDC’s plans to tear down the site and replace it with a bridge
Read MoreVegan options: what’s driving the animal product-free takeover of Hackney grub?
The popularity of plant-based foodstuffs in the borough is not just a fashion – we look at the other factors playing a part in the success of the borough’s vegan outlets
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