Empty primary school poised to reopen as specialist facility for SEND children
Baden Powell school was closed by the council last year due to falling pupil numbers
Read MoreGrassroots renewable energy group transforms West Hackney church into ‘greenest in the country’
Stokey Energy has now installed solar panels on more than a dozen buildings across the borough, including a West Hackney church
Read MoreLatitudes review – ‘Adventures in far-flung places’
Stoke Newington author Jean McNeil’s part memoir, part travelogue will linger long in the memory
Read MoreWe Cook Plants review – ‘A challenge you’re sure to relish’
Cooking charity founder Sarah Bentley offers up a persuasive guide to plant-based cuisine
Read MoreThe Boy on the Train review – ‘Deliciously twisty tale’
Local author Martin Goodman’s new novel sees ‘greed set against cunning’
Read MoreRomeo Bremmer, 17, wins British Citizen Youth Award – ‘The work’s just begun’
‘Without the Windrush elders, I wouldn’t have had the foundations to do what I’m doing today’
Read More‘How To Get On With Everybody’ – Inspiring documentary about beloved Hackney rabbi to show at the Rio Cinema
‘It’s a very nice film’ says Rabbi Herschel Gluck, ‘a very beautiful film’
Read MoreWell-versed in Newington Green
Toby Campion talks poetry and possibility
Read MoreI Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies review – ‘An exhibition to which we can well relate’
‘Fragmented backgrounds embroider our lives in lovely ways’
Read MorePalimpsest review – ‘Unearthing is not always pleasant’
Anastasia Tribambuka’s work interrogates the past
Read MoreCrudelia review – ‘Fantastic weaving of culture, fun and fandom’
Crudelia’s comida exquisita now has a permanent residency
Read MoreHackney couple could end up paying more in service charges despite High Court victory
John and Adenike Williams were previously awarded £20,000 in damages by Hackney Council for wrongly placing their children in foster care
Read MoreClapton ‘eyesore’ unrecognisable as vibrant new mural celebrates ‘nature and community spirit’
The mural has become the ‘centrepiece’ of a once ‘unloved’ part of Lower Clapton, according to residents.
Read MoreHoxton legal advice service at risk of closure after 32 years as charity scrambles for funding
The Hoxton Trust’s CEO says funding options to keep the service open ‘are now quite severely limited’
Read More‘I’ve had to boil the kettle and fill the sink for a flannel wash’ – council leaves woman without hot water for a month
‘Hackney is treating a 30-day delay in restoring hot water as reasonable’
Read MoreHackney Co-op slammed for damp and mould failures as Awaab’s Law comes into force
Housing Ombudsman says his latest report shows the need for a new law requiring landlords to fix hazards sooner
Read MoreCommunity group condemns plans to demolish Rowley Gardens Estate for a ‘monolith as penetrable as Uluru’
Friends of Rowley Gardens calls for the block to be renovated rather than bulldozed as part of the Woodberry Down regeneration
Read MoreCouncil accused of ‘salami slicing’ library budgets
‘It is about time this Labour council called on the central government to provide more funding’
Read MoreCouncil’s £51 million budget gap likely to increase if ‘Fair Funding Review’ left unchanged
Concerns raised over ‘detrimental’ impact of government’s review on council finances
Read MoreDe-selection of ‘excellent’ councillors sparks allegations of Labour ‘lack of transparency’
Petition launched to ‘save Hackney councillors Soraya Adejare and M Can Ozsen’
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