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Posts Tagged ‘hackney council’

Council tax hike mooted as Hackney faces £60m budget hole

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 October 2011 at 10:35
Hackney mayor Jules Pipe

The Town Hall faces a funding shortfall of £60 million over the next three years – even if it raises council tax by 2.5% per year

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Britney Spears shoots Criminal video as council bars gang drama filming on Hackney estates

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 23 September 2011 at 20:47
Ronan Bennett

Replica gun used at Stoke Newington Town Hall as council fears residents risk having ‘neighbourhoods stigmatised’

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The People’s Supermarket launches Hackney consultation

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 August 2011 at 09:45
The People's Supermarket

The member owned co-operative has launched a seven week consultation to find out if local people want such a store in Homerton

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Hackney Council pumps taxpayer millions into tobacco firms

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 August 2011 at 22:22
Clissold Park Play Area

Anti-smoking campaigners angry at Town Hall tobacco investments. ‘Everyone does it’ response from council as it promotes smoke-free kids’ play area

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Hackney to be twinned with Scarborough for Olympic events

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 August 2011 at 15:16
Seagulls, Scarborough Town Hall

The borough is partnering with a North Yorkshire seaside town for a series of cultural and sporting activities

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Are you affected by the Hackney riots?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 August 2011 at 23:41
Clarence Road cleanup, Tuesday 9 August 2011

Hackney Citizens’ Advice Bureau offers information to local residents on what to do

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Hackney Council advises Dalston traders to shut up shop as riot fears hit businesses hard

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 August 2011 at 18:33
Rahi Rehman

Shopkeepers and stallholders tell the Citizen how concerns over more civil unrest is affecting them

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Sainsbury’s PR company in Hackney Council contract row

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 August 2011 at 21:00
Sainsbury's lorry

Firm lobbying for controversial supermarket development hired to design new council website, Destination Hackney. Questions about Hackney councillors employed by company

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Clissold Park cafe contract awarded

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 August 2011 at 09:18
Clissold House

Company of Cooks bags five year deal

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Union wins council rethink over Hackney libraries cuts

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 25 July 2011 at 18:40
library cuts protest 20.7.11

Campaigners gain concessions as town bosses shy away from forced redundancies in library services shake-up

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Anti-social behaviour: how Hackney residents can get help, advice and report it

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 July 2011 at 09:31
Frampton Park tower block

Trained officers from Hackney Homes, the police and the council are out and about to meet residents concerned about noise nuisance and ‘difficult’ neighbours, 20 July – 3 October 2011

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Clissold Park play area to become smoke-free

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 21 July 2011 at 10:02
Clissold Park Play Area

The council, as part of the Hackney Tobacco Control Alliance, is introducing a new no-smoking initiative in the borough’s most popular park

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Twenty arrested in Dalston immigration and drugs swoop

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 July 2011 at 11:09
operation marsican dalston

A joint operation by Hackney Police, Hackney Council and the UK Border Agency cracks down on Class A drug dealing and immigration offences in Ridley Road and at Dalston Junction

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Have your say: council consults on dog control in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 July 2011 at 11:20
Staffie dogs Hackney

The Town Hall is asking what residents think about its proposals to introduce three new measures to tackle ‘dog nuisances’

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Hackney Unison slams council’s ‘sham’ library cuts consultation

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 22 June 2011 at 14:05
Library Lobby

The union claims Town Hall bosses have already made up their minds about the future of the borough’s library services

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Councillors’ fury at Hackney Today decision

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2011 at 22:46
Hackney Town Hall. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

The council decides to continue publication of its free ‘newspaper’ – one of the very few local authorities to do so

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Have your say on the future of Hackney libraries

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2011 at 13:56

The council’s consultation ends on Monday 27 June 2011

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Council to decide future of Hackney Today

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 June 2011 at 13:27
Hackney Town Hall. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

The Cabinet is to consider retention of its freesheet in defiance of criticism that it is simply ’propaganda on the rates’

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Hackney Labour councillor defects to Conservatives

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 May 2011 at 13:38
Councillors Ian Rathbone, Linda Kelly and Deniz Oguzkanli

In a surprise move, Cllr Linda Kelly joined the Tory benches at last night’s council AGM

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Hackney Council makes £27k Olympics tickets bid

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 May 2011 at 22:34

The Town Hall is spending more than any other London borough, according to the latest figures

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