Three Homerton Hospital initiatives shortlisted for prestigious awards
Two Covid projects and a virtual language therapy tool have received national recognition
Read MoreAll’s Well, Mare Street, food review: ‘A cornucopia of flavour, fun and sustainable frolicking’
Chef Chantelle Nicholson’s pop-up offers a ‘delicious and planet-friendly evening’
Read MoreTown Hall announces summer programme of Queer self-defence and art workshops
Events to be held throughout August at Haggerston Community Centre
Read MoreCouncil told restaurants to switch to deliveries during pandemic – but many were booted off Deliveroo and Uber Eats after cyber attack wiped food safety scores
Licensing boss reveals environmental health service was brought to a ‘standstill’ following October’s hack
Read More‘It’s been an absolute honour’: Hackney CVS chief to step down after 14 years
Jake Ferguson will leave in August to become CEO of a new black civil rights charity
Read More‘It has helped me move on’: Artworks by brain injury survivors on display at Autograph gallery
Common Threads features textile pieces by 23 artists from charity Headway’s Submit to Love Studios
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: Strawberries aren’t the only summer fruit
Kate Poland on her favourite berries to grow and eat, and which are the most fun to pick
Read MoreCouncil admits it can’t guarantee safety of ‘burnt-out’ social workers after cyber attack wipes key database
Social care boss says October’s hack left staff without case notes until April
Read MoreFour Orthodox schools in Hackney fail 29 of last 30 Ofsted visits between them
Bnois Jerusalem, Wiznitz Cheder, Talmud Torah Yetev Lev, and TTD Gur schools have all been rated ‘inadequate’ since at least 2014
Read MoreHeadteacher accuses council of plotting school closures with ‘data that doesn’t stack up’
Urswick’s Richard Brown says Town Hall assumes ‘number of kids in primary school will be exactly replicated by the time they go to secondary school’
Read MoreCouncil rakes in £2.7m by fining drivers for breaching LTNs – but 80 per cent don’t even live in Hackney
‘Figures demonstrate scale of challenge to eliminate through-traffic’, says transport boss
Read MoreCouncil to introduce Blue Badge exemption in low traffic neighbourhoods
Residents with companion badges will be able to bypass restrictions if schemes are made permanent
Read MoreNewly refurbished Newington Green Meeting House brings community together
The historic building is hosting free tours, exhibitions and classes for community members
Read MoreLocal British-Vietnamese archives saved from ‘dreadful vandalism’
Rare literature and artefacts to undergo emergency conservation treatment
Read MoreLondon’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered double-decker buses hits the streets
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says city is ‘moving closer’ to target of completely zero-emission bus fleet by 2030
Read MoreCommon Ground, Naomi Ishiguro, book review: ‘A modern-day Howards End’
The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’
Read MoreCouncillor shares first-hand experience of racial profiling at hands of police as she demands changes to Stop and Search
Soraya Adejare told how police officers pulled her over for “looking lost” – even though she was driving home from work
Read MoreProtesters demand Hackney Council divest from companies that operate in the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’
Around 60 people attended the protest organised by Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) with support from Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Read MoreEducation boss reveals remote learning left Hackney’s poorest kids behind on writing, maths and fine motor skills
Councillors warned that attainment gap will continue to grow without ‘big bit of work’ from teachers
Read MorePersephone, Hoxton Hall, stage review: ‘Overly ambitious but spirited’
Set outside in a community garden, the actors shine amidst the spring rain
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