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Candice Lin review – ‘These fabulations may be familiar to those of us who wince at the triviality of our own lives’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 14:21
Candice Lin, ghosti, 2025.

Behold an allegorical landscape at the Whitechapel Gallery

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Frank Watson review – ‘recounting the many minor mysteries of fraying English life in tucked-away spots’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 13:24
Soundings

His photographs walk the fine line between the banal and the sublime

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‘Mould kills! Safe council homes now!’ – Protesters call for housing reform on first day of Awaab’s Law

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 13:01
Protestors projected warnings on Hackney Town Hall to mark the start of Awaab's Law

Awaab’s Law is named after Awaab Ishak, a two-year-old boy who died as a result of a severe respiratory condition

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‘Excessive’ sanctions at Hackney school left children ‘demoralised, without clear improvement in behaviour’

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 09:32
Haggerston School

In the four months from September 2024 to February 2025, the school dished out 29,914 next-day detentions

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‘A litany of concerns’: Hackney councillors discuss Palantir contract with Homerton

By Claudia Lee | Monday 27 October 2025 at 15:14
Cllr Ben Hayhurst, Chair of the Health in Hackney scrutiny commission and Duncan McCann of the Good Law Project

‘We are in touch with workers in many trusts across all levels who want to resist the rollout’

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‘It’s not f***ing okay’ – Tempers flare at council debate over Hackney’s ‘ties’ with Israel

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 27 October 2025 at 11:49
Protestors outside Hackney Town Hall

The council has faced pressure from Green party and Independent Socialist councillors to end its twinning relationship with Haifa, but Hackney Labour party has accused its opponents of political game-playing

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The Black Eel review – ‘Can I ever forgive Fisher?’

By Gabriel Wilding | Sunday 26 October 2025 at 09:02
Riley's

Have you ever been swimming with eels? A nightmare for some, a strange fascination for my friend and me.

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Council chief executive hauled in front of judge as resident alleges contempt of court

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 October 2025 at 23:26
The Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court and Family Court at the Gee Street Courthouse

A Hackney leaseholder alleges the council has breached a court-ordered deadline to complete works on his property in a long-running legal disrepair case

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‘Beautiful Gothic Dalston school shut last year – we want to turn it into art and music space’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 October 2025 at 12:49
The Grade-II listed Colvestone School was built in 1862

Hackney Council listed Colvestone Primary School as an Asset of Community Value after shuttering it in 2024

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‘Speechless’: Council tells NHS staff to stop writing letters in support of SEND families

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 October 2025 at 12:21
Erik's mother Niki said the council's medical teams had downplayed his special needs

Hackney parents whose children have special educational needs and disabilities say they are shocked by the request seen in leaked emails

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Ridley Road traders warn rent rise will force them out

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 October 2025 at 10:53
Debbie Wilkins and Scott Lomax

Worries that proposals to raise licence fees could force them out for good

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Hackney Council CEO faces contempt of court charges in ongoing leaseholder dispute

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 21 October 2025 at 15:41
Dawn Carter-McDonald

Dawn Carter-McDonald has been ordered to attend the first hearing, which is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon

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A takeaway of ideas – artist Ling Tan’s Low Carbon Chinatown

By Megan Khan | Monday 20 October 2025 at 22:22
Ling Tan

Ingredients for change on show at climate exhibition

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Power Station review – ‘If we’re going to save this life-giving world we’re squatting on, we need radical, grassroots change’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 20 October 2025 at 21:04
POWER STATION Roofto

‘A combining of Powell’s artistic audio-visual epics with Edelstyn’s narrative vision and director-producer drive’

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Plan for secure children’s home progresses despite opposition from Save Lea Marshes

By Claudia Lee | Monday 20 October 2025 at 20:08
Swan protest in front of the ice centre

The proposal is ‘the wrong project in the wrong place’

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The writing’s on the wall – behold the ‘floating’ sculptures of Zineb Sedira

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 October 2025 at 17:45
Zineb Sedir, Dreams Are-a Language Made of Images, 2025

There are ‘Dreams’ on the River Lea, shadows on the brickwork

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A combination of imagination and tradition – India Club at Gunpowder

By Gabriel Wilding | Sunday 19 October 2025 at 19:18
Gunpowder, Spitalfields

‘This is the epitome of intimate dining’

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Challenging under-representation: Campaign launches to tackle Afro-hair discrimination

By Gabriel Stewart | Sunday 19 October 2025 at 15:17
The emoji designs as initial drawings

‘There are thousands of emojis but none that represents afro-hair’

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Council left child without care plan for more than a year, ombudsman finds

By Claudia Lee | Saturday 18 October 2025 at 11:57
Hackney Town Hall

Town Hall received professional advice late – but still did not issue the plan for around another 10 months.

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Hackney Council has spent £38 million since 2020 buying back houses it used to own

By Claudia Lee | Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 12:00
Mayor Caroline Woodley

The local authority sold one property for £95,050 in 2014, only to buy it back for £365,000 in 2021

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