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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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‘Unfair and unlawful’: Campaigners take council to court over children’s centres consultation

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 15 August 2024 at 16:14
Campaigners contesting the closure of Fernbank children's centre

‘We have been clear that we would fight tooth and nail to try to keep these valuable services’

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Assembly calls on Londoners to share voting experience

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 August 2024 at 10:26
Len Duvall OBE AM

The survey is open to anyone who would like to respond

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Cross-party support as Hackney Mayor and councillors join anti-racist solidarity rally

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 August 2024 at 16:01
Anti-racism protest on Saturday 10 August 2024

Labour, Green and independent representatives attend Hackney Stand Up To Racism event

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Hackney councillors voice concern over potential rollout of live facial recognition

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 August 2024 at 13:06
Zoë Garbett

‘Any decision to deploy it would rest with the police’

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Lack of gas and electrical safety checks to council homes a ‘serious failure’, says housing regulator

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 August 2024 at 11:56
Cllr Clayeon McKenzie

“Report’s findings are disappointing’ says Cllr Clayeon McKenzie, Cabinet Member for Housing Services

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‘That’s the way to do it!’ – Mr Punch at the Opera

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 9 August 2024 at 13:56
Mr Punch at the Opera

Pantomime and puppetry performance with modern themes at the Arcola

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London Fields and Stoke Newington by-elections announced

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 7 August 2024 at 08:46
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Voters are off to the polls in London Fields and Stoke Newington wards

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Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of ‘excluding residents from key decisions’ on future of Tesco site

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 2 August 2024 at 18:44

Activists say Town Hall has ‘insulted community’ in row over future of major development in Hackney Central

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Homeless man left psychologically ‘wounded’ after losing everything at Town Hall protest camp

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 2 August 2024 at 18:02

Daemeon, 38, says he has had to ‘start again from the ground up’

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Goodbye Mr Coffee, Courtyard Theatre, Camden Fringe, stage review: ‘Delicately-written drama’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 2 August 2024 at 08:11

The first production from De Beauvoir’s Brian Voakes is ‘at once relective and humorous’

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Fury made sublime’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 2 August 2024 at 07:54

This retrospective of Kennard’s work is ‘bound to stir thoughts of your own role in the political’

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Only a quarter of eligible households have signed up to Hackney’s new garden waste subscription

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 1 August 2024 at 18:10
Waste truck

Opposition councillor fears scheme is a ‘disincentive for those on a tight income’

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