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Bakery workers pave the way for hospitality organising with ‘landmark’ union recognition

By Claudia Lee | Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 11:04
In union: bakers at E5 Bakehouse. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

E5 Bakehouse founder Ben Mackinnon has welcomed the agreement as a ‘really positive move’

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Raising the colour: Hackney flies flag for Black History Season

By Claudia Lee | Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 10:32
Hackney Council black history season flag

Following a summer where flag wars have polarised the country, the borough is ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’

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Ridley Road traders are back up and running – but uncertainty remains

By Claudia Lee | Saturday 11 October 2025 at 20:00
Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

A number of traders referred to the council as “hostile”, saying it is overseeing the ‘managed decline’ of Ridley Road

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Hackney MP Meg Hillier joins judging panel of Kingsland Shopping Centre logo design competition

By Agnes Dorling | Friday 10 October 2025 at 13:11
Kingsland Shopping Centre

The MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch said the contest was about ‘capturing the story of Dalston’ and reflecting its ‘diversity, ambition and energy’

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Campaigners urge Homerton NHS Trust to eschew contract with controversial US data firm

By Claudia Lee | Thursday 9 October 2025 at 15:56
Marion Macalpine of Hackney Keep Our NHS Public

‘There are widely-held concerns about the inadequate safeguards Palantir offers regarding the confidentiality of our personal health records’

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Popular Hackney venue teases plenty more gigs as council backs 5am closing time

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 October 2025 at 11:52
EartH has played host to multiple music and comedy acts since it opened in 2018

Director of music and comedy theatre Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH) in Hackney says later hours will put an end to its ‘hand-to-mouth’ existence and support its long-term survival

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Broken lifts, loss of hot water and overdue repairs: Hackney Council pays out ‘astonishing’ £572,000 in compensation

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 October 2025 at 10:49
Hackney Town Hall

Hackney councillor told officers she had gone two months without hot water in her housing block

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Collection of iconic Hackney Empire statue sculptor goes up for auction

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 18:15
Michael Mason (left) with Hackney Empire sculpture 1989

‘The clays, the heat, the oxides and even the water used to form the things I make are in many ways equivalent to the forces which originally shaped the earth’

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Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 13:42
Zac sat in the train doors at Homerton Overground Station

‘Nobody else’s journey takes half an hour longer because they’re with four other people’

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Meet Nathan Creighton: the former Mossbourne student teaching maths at Oxford University

By Agnes Dorling | Monday 6 October 2025 at 10:59

Awarded an academic scholarship to study at Cambridge University, Nathan later moved to Oxford for doctoral work

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Cake to celebrate: ‘lifeline’ Laburnum Boat Club marks its massive makeover

By Claudia Lee | Friday 3 October 2025 at 15:26

‘It’s a space where young people feel heard and valued and supported to be the best they can be’

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‘She can’t vanish’: Community mourns death of beloved local homeless woman

By Claudia Lee | Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:39

Fundraiser launched for a bench or plaque to honour Tracey O’Brien

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Final Woodberry Down plans win approval despite fears over ‘staggering’ loss of wildlife

By Claudia Lee | Friday 26 September 2025 at 15:33

Campaigners have raised concerns over biodiversity and cuts to social housing

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Come clean on buried ‘LTNs don’t cut traffic’ report, Sadiq Khan told

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 26 September 2025 at 14:35
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

The City Hall Conservatives transport spokesman Keith Prince said mayor must reveal whether he was involved

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Popular Dalston bakery giving prison leavers tools to flourish in ‘chaotic’ London

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 26 September 2025 at 14:01

The Dusty Knuckle has been praised as an exemplar in how to support ex-offenders

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‘Desperately disappointing for bereaved and injured’ – plans to end road deaths delayed till 2026

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 11:19

Campaigners react as second phase of TfL puts brakes on much-vaunted Vision Zero Action Plan

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Clubs boycott Saucony Run Shoreditch 10km over event sponsor’s links to Israel

By Claudia Lee | Monday 22 September 2025 at 18:51
Waking Dreams ahead of their 10km in Victoria Park, Sunday 21 September

‘We cannot allow the sport we love to be used to gloss over oppression’

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Vet suspended over cat death employed as head surgeon in Hackney

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 15:59
Goddard Veterinary Group Practice in Well Street

A series of charges of serious professional misconduct were proved against him

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Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 12:42

Plant-Based Hackney fears Town Hall is ‘nowhere near as ambitious as it claims to be’

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Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain review: ‘fresh insights’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:46

Scientists, artists and more pose for Peaky Blinders photographer Robert Viglasky

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