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‘My life is on hold’: Women waiting for fertility treatment at Homerton Hospital speak out over delays

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 6 April 2022 at 14:03
Homerton Hospital

Hospital apologises for distress caused by ‘extraordinary and unforeseen operational challenges’

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Liberal Democrat mayoral hopeful says ‘tough talking’ and togetherness needed as she homes in on children’s welfare

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 4 April 2022 at 18:01

Accountant Helen Baxter talks about her priorities for the borough ahead of May’s elections

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Child Q: Metropolitan Police to bring in stricter rules for intimate searches of children

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 April 2022 at 17:41

Hackney Council ‘cautiously welcomes’ Met’s response to strip-search of Black teenage girl at her school

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Mabley Green Class of ’21, Benjamin Hughes, book review: ‘The art of rock-climbing on the plains of Homerton’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 1 April 2022 at 14:56

The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park

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Hackney resident speaks out over lack of bike storage as #thisisawkward campaign reveals cyclists’ eye-popping workarounds

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 April 2022 at 11:29

Frances Cherry, who has to keep bikes in her toilet and hallway, wants the council to convert car spaces into storage hangars

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‘The pandemic has not gone away,’ warns Hackney’s public health boss

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 31 March 2022 at 15:00
Dr Sandra Husbands

Cases in City and Hackney have risen by nearly a quarter in the last week

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Homerton Hospital forced to cancel operations as staff come down with Covid

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 30 March 2022 at 15:05
Homerton Hospital

Cases are up 24 per cent in Hackney according to the latest set of figures

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What exactly is a directly elected mayor? Find out more about Hackney’s highest political office

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 29 March 2022 at 18:41
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Too much power for one person or much-needed stability for a council? What’s the pay like? And how did a monkey end up running Hartlepool?

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‘The NHS is our most vital asset’: Hackney illustrator donates series of artworks to Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 29 March 2022 at 17:28

Jane Smith has gifted a number of illustrations and linocuts in tribute to the health service and the Homerton’s longstanding art programme

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Child Q: ‘Mortified’ Hackney police chief issues fresh apology to teenage girl and her family

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 29 March 2022 at 12:41
Hackney’s police commander Marcus Barnett

Borough commander Marcus Barnett says he is ‘genuinely sorry’ for the heartache caused

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Green Party mayoral candidate calls for ‘deep police reform’ as she outlines her priorities for Hackney

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 28 March 2022 at 18:37
Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

NHS worker Zoe Garbett on Child Q, LTNs, cost of living and giving ‘power back to the people’

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Hackney Carnival is coming back – here’s how you can take part

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 28 March 2022 at 13:10

One of the UK’s biggest events is returning to the streets after two years online

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‘We want peace’: Hackney residents and businesses step up to support Ukraine

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 28 March 2022 at 11:39

A round-up of some of the local efforts being made to raise money and show unity

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Child Q: School apologises for teenage girl’s ‘harrowing’ experience

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 25 March 2022 at 17:18

Governing board accepts the child ‘should not have been left in the situation that she was’

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Objectively Funny, Signature Brew Haggerston, stage review: ‘Array of British comedy talent’

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 25 March 2022 at 14:11

Household names and up-and-comers had the audience in stitches

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Caravel, Regent’s Canal, restaurant review: ‘Petite but perfectly formed offering’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 25 March 2022 at 11:54

The restaurant on a converted barge is ‘well worth the expense’

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Child Q: Two officers who conducted strip-search removed from frontline duties

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 24 March 2022 at 14:13

Police watchdog investigating three constables for their involvement

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Child Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 24 March 2022 at 10:16

Louisa Rolfe, tipped as a possible successor to Cressida Dick, says Met accepts findings of safeguarding review

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Find out how you can help Ukrainian refugees at online community event next week

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 24 March 2022 at 09:51

Hackney Council hopes meeting will connect residents who have spare rooms with community groups and fundraisers

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Child Q: Hackney Mayor calls on school’s headteacher to resign

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 12:45

Philip Glanville says move would ‘fully recognise traumatic impact’ of police strip-search on the girl and her family

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