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‘Something special’: Artworks by Hackney teenagers go on display at former royal residence

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2024 at 13:06

Young people from Immediate Theatre join arts takeover at Cumberland Lodge

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Titbits – Echoes, waves and Britpop faves

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2024 at 12:59
Titbits bird

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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Legendary designer Katharine Hamnett backs Oxfam’s Secondhand September campaign

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2024 at 10:01

Hamnett visited her local branch in Dalston to support the charity’s #SecondHandSeptember drive

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Fear and frustration over rising anti-social behaviour in Hackney Downs

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 5 September 2024 at 13:43

Police have requested ongoing assistance from council enforcement officers to patrol park

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Town Hall commits £24 million over four years to upgrade ‘aged’ lift stock

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 5 September 2024 at 13:36

Council admits many lifts have been in use beyond their “natural life cycle”

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Cyber attack: Hackney residents’ anger over ongoing council tax ‘mess’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 4 September 2024 at 11:41

Council confronts ongoing impact of 2020 cyber attack on services and bill delays

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Hackney Council pushes for DBS checks for elected members

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 3 September 2024 at 17:22
Hackney Town Hall

Standards committee recommends council immediately adopts new safeguarding measures

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Net zero targets: Mayor shrugs off doom and gloom as two-thirds of councils flag lack of funding

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 2 September 2024 at 20:02
Caroline Woodley and Mete Coban

‘Despite significant financial challenges, we’re committed,’ says Caroline Woodley

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Greens and Independents unite in bid to oust Tories as largest opposition in Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 30 August 2024 at 19:06

Next month’s polls will make it eight by-elections in two years for the council

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Two arrests made after ‘man on mobility scooter’ fatally stabbed in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 29 August 2024 at 10:18

Two men, aged 21 and 28, in custody after victim in his 30s died on Rushmore Road in Clapton yesterday

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‘Traditional masculinity is in revolt’: Honoured scholar Victor Seidler reflects on Hackney’s radicalism and Britain’s unrest

By Josef Steen | Wednesday 28 August 2024 at 17:04

‘Our culture lacks a way to talk to young men, such that figures like Andrew Tate have become a major influence’

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Homerton Hospital caterers to protest again over ‘second-class’ treatment in Covid payment row

By Josef Steen | Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 19:00

Staff employed by Denmark-based company ISS have not received the bonus in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic

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Passengers waiting five years for lift at Hackney Downs Overground station

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 22 August 2024 at 16:32
Sem Moema AM

‘They just need to get on with it’ says London Assembly Member and Hackney Downs councillor Sem Moema

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Hackney students celebrate GCSE results

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 22 August 2024 at 15:55
Mossbourne Community Academy GCSE students 2024

Jubilation over success on paper and in practice

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Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years – review

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 August 2024 at 15:43
James Baldwin

‘The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it’

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Stamford Hill Jewish community calls on government to scrap two-child benefit cap

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 15:07
Rabbi Levi Schapiro

Letter calls on secretary of state for work and pensions to consider the needs of larger families

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Should we stay or should we go? Residents of tower block tell of fire safety fears

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 14:19
Concerned: Pitcairn House residents

No second staircase ‘for any existing buildings’, Hackney Council confirms

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London Fields and Stoke Newington by-election candidates announced

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 August 2024 at 13:32
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Voters are off to the polls on 12 September 2024

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Government denies London mayor Sadiq Khan power to impose rent controls

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 15 August 2024 at 18:23
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Ministers have ‘no plans whatsoever’ to enable introduction of caps on the amount private landlords can charge

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Making the grade: Hackney students A-level and BTEC results 2024

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 August 2024 at 17:57
Students at the Urswick School

Students from the Urswick School, Cardinal Pole, Mossbourne and BSix are amongst those celebrating

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