Hackney food pioneer Growing Communities wins BBC award
Efforts by social enterprise to forge local links with food producers recognised with accolade
Read MoreMeet Susie McKenna – Hackney Empire’s pantotime queen
Dick Whittington and His Cat is this year’s pantomime at the Hackney Empire. The Hackney Citizen talks to the show’s writer and director, Susie McKenna
Read MoreLegacy chiefs offer free Olympic Park bus tours
Public are given the chance to look in on the Olympic Park redevelopment
Read MoreNew yuletide home for Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market
Popular market expands for Christmas in new temporary location
Read MoreNana launches home-cooked cafe at Clapton pub
The enterprising ‘older ladies’ of NANA have started a café serving up traditional food at affordable prices
Read MoreSightseers – review
Co-writers Steve Oram and Alice Lowe star in this chilling campsite comedy from the makers of Kill List
Read MoreMentally ill Hackney man jailed for hospital arson has prison sentence quashed
Mother vows to keep fighting against the criminalisation of mental health patients
Read MoreThe Hackney Debate – Secondary schools: is parental choice paramount?
This year’s Hackney Debate asked whether Government reforms are creating healthy diversity or dangerous fragmentation in secondary schools
Read MoreThe butcher, the baker and the bag maker – East End Trades Guild launches
Independent traders in East London join forces to resist threat of rising rents and competition from big companies
Read MoreHackney students visit Auschwitz death camps
Students visit Nazi camps in Poland to study the dangers of racism and prejudice
Read MoreAtomica Gallery blasts off
New pop-up gallery and shop opens off Brick Lane
Read MoreCampaigners put wheels in motion for improved cycle routes
Congested towpaths are the result of poor cycle routes on the roads, says Hackney Friends of the Earth
Read MoreCouncil ‘kill-joys’ lack Christmas spirit say Broadway Market traders
Cafés warned against providing tables and chairs for public use ‘without a licence’
Read MoreBoff calls on Boris to take Council to task over London Living Wage
Town Hall urged to take action as contracted employees found to receive less than London Living Wage
Read MoreSeason of goodwill helps Hackney Winter Night Shelter meet demand
With more volunteers than ever, the Night Shelter is opening for an extra two months this year
Read MoreOh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is! Hackney Council’s constitutional confusion over tweeting in meetings
Councillors go against their constitution by using electronic devices in Town Hall meetings
Read MoreLeader – Anti-Veolia deputation fails the ‘spirit test’
Hackney Council’s reasons for preventing a resident speak at a council meeting are puzzling and perhaps disingenuous
Read MoreHackney Council’s spending on festive lights dazzles
Town Hall spends more than neighbouring boroughs on festive lights despite residents being worst hit by cuts, according to a new report
Read MoreNewington Green Unitarian Church approved for civil partnerships
Hackney takes a step closer to equal marriage rights
Read MoreHackney social services condemned over failures after mother kills children
Coroner criticises staff who allowed woman suffering from paranoid schizophrenia unsupervised overnight visits
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