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Hundreds of frontline workers at Homerton Hospital at risk of losing their jobs as deadline for mandatory vaccines approaches

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 18:46
Homerton Hospital

Close to 350 staff have still not had their first jab as hospital bosses continue persuasion efforts

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Hackney Road strip club’s licence in jeopardy after it ‘mistakenly lifted Covid restrictions too early’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 17:45

Undercover inspectors witnessed multiple breaches at Ye Olde Axe last summer, including dances that were ‘too intimate’

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Council rents to shoot up by 4.1 per cent in April as Town Hall tries to balance the books

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 25 January 2022 at 19:58
Saying sorry: Councillor Clayeon Mckenzie

Housing services boss says pandemic has seen council income fall and costs increase

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Campaigners celebrate as council vows to ‘breathe new life’ into Ridley Road with revamp of shopping village

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 25 January 2022 at 14:25

Town Hall is taking on the lease for building that has been at the centre of anti-gentrification protests

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‘Let us help you’: Windrush campaigners urge people to come forward for free support – even if they don’t want to claim compensation

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 24 January 2022 at 17:28

A group of organisations are offering mental health support as well as free legal advice if needed

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Fast food couriers stage Town Hall protest as they fight for better parking near Dalston McDonald’s

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 January 2022 at 13:54

Community safety boss says ‘it is not council’s job to help large-scale private companies get more business’

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Peek through the looking-glass: Homerton’s second annual Window Wanderland festival to take place next month

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 21 January 2022 at 12:17

Organisers of the community art event reveal ‘Our Earth’ theme in effort to draw attention to global warming

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Blacks Can’t Swim filmmaker wants to ‘spark conversation’ with follow-up to acclaimed documentary series

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 21 January 2022 at 10:30

Ed Accura is hoping to ‘change the narrative’ with third film exploring the lack of Black representation in swimming

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Whitechapel Gallery director announces ‘emotional decision’ to step down after two decades

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 21 January 2022 at 09:22

Iwona Blazwick’s tenure, during which audience numbers went up 300 per cent, will come to an end in April

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Anti-LTN campaigners to hold ‘people’s assembly’ outside Hackney Town Hall

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 20 January 2022 at 17:47

Hackney Together group says it wants to show the council that ‘open, honest and constructive’ engagement is possible

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Outpouring of sexual abuse allegations from UK students acted as a ‘wake-up call’ in Hackney, say education bosses

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 20 January 2022 at 14:28

Testimonies involving two local schools are among 54,000 on website where survivors can share their stories

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Campaigners launch appeal to fund legal fight as efforts to thwart incinerator expansion continue

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 18:58

Coalition of protest groups is targeting £7,500 as it gears up for battle with the North London Waste Authority

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London Contemporary Orchestra: 24, Barbican, stage review: ‘Marathon concert offers an eye-opening view of music and humanity’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 13:00

A day-long experience that saw the ‘old rules of theatre dissolve off the stage as the old rules of music were eroded on it’

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Dexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 10:47

The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’

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‘There’s a good reason for this’: Two local nurses on vaccine hesitancy and efforts to make the jab a ‘positive experience’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 17 January 2022 at 18:22

Gemma Evans and colleague Gemma Davies say there is a wealth of experience and support on offer to people who are nervous

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Women’s theatre podcast founded in Hackney launches first full series

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 17 January 2022 at 14:13

Fizzy Sherbet’s inaugural season will see an episode released every fortnight from today

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Campaigners stage mass rally in last-minute bid to stop deal for controversial new incinerator

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 17 January 2022 at 13:22

Over 600 people are said to have joined the march yesterday from Edmonton to the North Circular

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Artist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 17 January 2022 at 11:52

The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more

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‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop

By Sarah Birch | Monday 17 January 2022 at 10:54

Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’

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Pop-up vaccine clinics are pulling into Liverpool Street station – with health bosses hoping to reach waiting commuters

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 13 January 2022 at 15:09

Christmas week saw highest number of jabs given since Omicron vaccine push began

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