‘Groundhog Day’: Parents fighting to save two children’s centres hit out at council’s ‘tick-box’ consultation
Campaigners say the Town Hall has offered no ‘plan B’ to shutting Fernbank and Sebright centres
Read MoreLondon Assembly elections: Meet the seven candidates battling it out to represent Hackney
Londoners go the ballot box on 2 May to choose a member for their area – as well as the city’s mayor
Read MoreArtists Gilbert & George on life in East London, sensationalism, and the success of their gallery
The pair spoke to the Citizen after unveiling new artworks to celebrate the first anniversary of the Gilbert & George Centre
Read MoreStoke Newington Library’s refurbishment gets £500k funding boost
The library, which closed for two years at the end of March, will have more money to spend on upgrading its facilities
Read MoreAndrew Pierre Hart, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sensory landscape of the streets just outside the walls’
Andrew Pierre Hart’s Whitechapel show engages the local area in a way that’s both intimate and readily recognisable
Read More‘Outrage’ as sewage dumped into River Lee doubles in a single year
Thames Water admits 2023 figures are ‘unacceptable’ after it released wastewater into the river and its tributaries more than 1,000 times
Read MoreEnvironmentalists buzzing over £250k funding for bee corridor in Hackney
Charity ecoACTIVE plans to build a green thoroughfare for wildlife between four local parks
Read MoreNew stall enters the fromage fray at Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market
A collective of British farms will set up shop at the much-loved market this month
Read MoreTT, Kingsland Road, food review: ‘The meat outdances the veg’
TT, formerly TT Liquor, launches its first permanent restaurant, and its offering is ‘charmingly robust’
Read More‘What have I done?’ Hackney Mayor Caroline Woodley on her first 100 days in office
The former parks chief says a sense of duty overtook her initial reticence to run for the borough’s highest office
Read MoreChild Migrant Voices in Modern Britain, Eithne Nightingale, book review: ‘Unique perspectives on how we live’
Nightingale’s sensitive collection of people’s stories is ‘remarkable for its sheer diversity’
Read MoreMay elections: Everything you need to know to cast your vote
Residents will be selecting councillors, assembly members, and a London mayor on 2 May
Read MoreHackney councillor on final list of 13 candidates vying to become Mayor of London
Dalston representative Zoë Garbett is aiming to be the capital’s first Green mayor on 2 May
Read More‘Hazy renderings of a restrained gastronomy’
Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of simple domesticity belie his diligent and complex method
Read MoreHomerton Fertility Centre’s licence suspended after incidents of frozen embryos ‘not surviving or being undetectable’
Healthcare officials faced a grilling from concerned councillors at a scrutiny meeting this week
Read MoreMan arrested after making ‘allegedly antisemitic’ threats close to scene of Clapton house fire
The 60-year-old was detained on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following blaze on Newick Road
Read MorePeabody residents joined by Hackney councillors to protest ‘huge’ rent hikes
Campaigners were backed by suspended Victoria ward councillors as they took their fight to Peabody’s headquarters
Read MoreCampaign to create East London’s first wild swimming pond launches petition to save land from developers
East London Waterworks Park is rallying support for its vision of a ‘brownfield rainforest’
Read MoreMan, 47, arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following two crossbow attacks in Shoreditch
The suspect is in custody in east London after a woman was shot in the head and a man was hit in the neck in separate assaults
Read MorePoliticians call on Labour to reinstate Diane Abbott at packed show of support in Hackney
Hundreds of people turned out last night following the racist abuse suffered by the long-serving MP
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