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Mental health charity to open beautiful garden ‘sanctuary’ in Homerton

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 May 2024 at 11:37

Core Landscapes, part of Core Arts, is inviting residents to a big launch event on 8 June

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Critics round on Woodberry Down plans as next phase narrowly wins approval

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 May 2024 at 11:18

A Labour schism meant plans for more than 500 new homes passed by a hair

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Titbits – Freudian slips and furry misclicks

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 15:26
Titbits bird

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

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Leader – Home truths

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 15:21

Where’s the oversight for residents who are being failed by their housing provider?

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‘Source of inspiration’: Civil rights icon James Baldwin to get blue plaque in Dalston

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 12:59

The author and activist will be commemorated at the Hackney CVS building on Dalston Lane, which he visited two years before his death in 1987

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Jock McFadyen: Made in Hackney 2, The Grey Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The outside world as a sensory force’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 10:58

The painter’s new show in London Fields offers paintings you can get lost in

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Yard sticks: Hackney theatre that began as a pop-up secures funding for state-of-the-art renovation

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 13 May 2024 at 14:29

Yard Theatre director ‘incredibly proud’ as venue sures up its long-term future

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Pro-Palestinian protestors descend on Town Hall to demand end to Israeli weapons investment and Haifa twinning

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 May 2024 at 21:33
Camped out: protestors at Hackney Town Hall, Friday 10 May 2024.

Amid ongoing conflict in Gaza, local protestors call on Hackney Council to cease funding and axe relationship

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The Comeuppance, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Emotional guts and gore’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 10 May 2024 at 14:51

The UK debut of Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ play is ‘engaging, if not mind-blowing’

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Researchers are on the hunt for stories about the Old Fire Station in Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 May 2024 at 13:21

A project team at the iconic community venue is hosting an open day next week – and they’d love to hear people’s memories of the place

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Labour’s Sem Moema re-elected as Assembly Member for north-east London

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 May 2024 at 11:31

Moema took more than 50 per cent of the vote in a dominant performance

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Hackney set for fifth by-election in two years as another Labour councillor quits

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 May 2024 at 14:30

Yvonne Maxwell is yet to speak out about her resignation, but said she was ‘free at last’ on social media

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Town Hall stands by consultation process as children’s centre campaigners ramp up legal threat

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 May 2024 at 12:00

Parents fighting to save two centres from closure send council a letter before claim

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Residents on troubled estate slam ‘shoddy’ response from council chief

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 May 2024 at 10:26
Dawn Carter-McDonald

People living at Pitcairn House welcome apology from Dawn Carter-McDonald, but say they feel ‘gaslighted’

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Hackney MP defends mayor and council over plans to shut two children’s centres

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 May 2024 at 09:38
Meg Hillier - UK Parliament official portrait 2017

Hackney South Meg Hillier met with parents at Sebright, one of the centres under threat

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New Labour councillors ‘honoured and humbled’ after winning Hackney by-elections

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 8 May 2024 at 17:31

Cllrs Jasmine Martins and Faruk Tinaz fill seats in De Beauvoir and Hoxton East respectively

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Turner Prize winner Helen Cammock joins public art trail in East London

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 May 2024 at 11:49

Cammock’s contribution to The Line is to be unveiled in late May on a bridge over the River Lea

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Dalston Green councillor takes up City Hall seat following surprise resignation

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 7 May 2024 at 12:24
Zoë Garbett

Zoë Garbett replaces Siân Berry, who has stepped down just days after being re-elected

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‘I grew up with public service’: Dalston councillor Zoë Garbett on her battle to become London’s first Green mayor

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 17:57
Dalston councillor Zoë Garbett

The leader of the Hackney Green group says her experience on the council has informed her campaign

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‘Ready for the fight’: Sanctuary Housing workers backed by politicians as they strike again over pay

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 17:27

Repair and maintenance staff say under-inflation pay rises have left some using food banks

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