Progressive preservation
Dean Smith looks at how London’s identity, diversity and contemporary architecture is affected through the preservation of existing buildings, conservation areas and spatial policies
Read MoreTitbits – Four Communications, Hackney Today and parties’ row over Cazenove
Find out who’s namechecked in our new diary column
Read MoreHackney author looks at the gardens of the British working class
Are we a nation of gardeners? asks Margaret Willes in her new book
Read MorePhilip Pullman’s Grimm Tales to be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall
‘A story is better than a commandment’ author of His Dark Materials tells the Hackney Citizen
Read MoreJane Eyre to show us ‘how to be right in love’ at Rosemary Branch theatre
Stage adaptation of nineteenth century novel returns for a second run at Off West End award-winning theatre
Read MoreArtists from London and Los Angeles team up for Head Grammar exhibition
Transition Gallery to hold mixed media group exhibition
Read MoreBerlin Wall painter Thierry Noir to exhibit in Shoreditch gallery
The Howard Griffin Gallery is to hold the first ever Thierry Noir retrospective in April
Read MoreHackney Council approves plan to demolish Dalston’s historic Georgian terrace
Total demolition of heritage buildings to go ahead after close-run vote at Town Hall
Read MoreLeader – Hackney Council’s gesture politics over betting shops
Town Hall asks Pickles for more power to restrict where bookies can open, but Labour itself opened the floodgates
Read MoreCar wars as Hackney Council seeks to put brakes on parking at Kingsland Shopping Centre site
Town Hall at odds with developer amid concern over future of Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden
Read MoreKingsland Shopping Centre plans: clash with developers over car culture
Parking concerns fuel split amid debate over Eastern Curve Garden’s future
Read MoreProject to celebrate retired Caribbean nurses’ experiences will host first gathering this month
Scheme by Black Arts Women will result in exhibition at Hackney Museum later this year
Read MoreGang culture shot down as Our Lady’s Convent School students get organised to combat crime
Survey carried out by pupils finds safety is top of public’s concerns
Read MorePupils at Hackney’s Nightingale Primary School get cracking with code ahead of curriculum changes
Coding can be like poetry, says teenage prodigy as students strive to emulate Zuckerberg and Jobs
Read MoreReachOut, the mentoring scheme in a class of its own, celebrates grades rise
‘Character’ focus advocated by MP Tristram Hunt is at heart of group’s work
Read MoreTalmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz School warned against ‘slapping’
Ofsted report warns ultra-religious independent Jewish school not to use corporal punishment
Read MoreBusker Mike ‘Down Dalston Lane’ Gregovich launches Soul of a Man EP
‘Music man’ who plays behind Kingsland Shopping Centre puts out new five-track recording
Read MoreRight royal mix-up over dumped mail trolley is sorted after Citizen steps in
Confusion over abandoned object, but ‘post-mortem’ yields no answers
Read MoreHackney Council agrees 2014/15 budget and rejects alternative Tory and Lib Dem plans
Protesters staged rally against cuts on steps of Town Hall
Read MoreHackney Council’s new parking controls ‘bad for business’ in Victoria Park
Fears trade will be hit, but majority of residents in favour of ramped-up restrictions
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