‘Pay it forward’: Residents urged to buy items in advance from struggling local businesses
Hospitality bosses welcome scheme bringing ‘valuable breathing room’ as local businesses feel pandemic’s impact
Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter
Broadway Market enforcement to be tightened up amid social distancing concerns
Extra police and enforcement officers to be deployed from this weekend with parking and through traffic suspended
Locals mourn loss of Happy Man Tree as Woodberry Down Estate plans approved
Popular London Plane tree to be torn down along with five blocks to clear the way for 600 new homes
Returning Hackney1000 charity drive adapts for lockdown life with online challenges
Hackney Quest aim at 1000km target by mixing socially distanced runs with sponsored silences, knitathons, karaoke marathons and more
‘Sense of pride’: Absences in Hackney’s waste service lower than normal during pandemic
Waste chief pays tribute to staff loyalty and performance as reports indicate service continues to operate with zero disruption
Coronavirus: Stratford walk-in centre shelved in favour of home testing
NHS confirms that work on the site, which had been expected to open this week, has been halted
Mental health must be ‘paramount’ to coronavirus recovery plan, deputy mayor urges
Cllr Anntoinette Bramble says mental wellbeing of frontline staff as much a focus as physical protection
Coronavirus: Town Hall needs tens of millions more in emergency funding, report reveals
Council finance whiz lays bare dramatic impact of crisis on its budget, with further austerity measures ‘a real possibility’
Woodberry Down locals fight to save Happy Man Tree from destruction by developers
Council officers accept loss of venerable plane tree would cause ‘substantial harm to biodiversity and public amenity’
Diaries and rainbows: Town Hall to celebrate Hackney’s artistic and literary talents
Speaker Kam Adams to judge winning rainbow drawing as Hackney Museum calls for diaries to give future insight into lockdown life
Tributes pour in for lost Homerton staff after ‘heartbreaking weekend’
Acute care nurse Michael Allieu and carers support specialist Sophie Fagan remembered by colleagues
Hackney communities ‘pull together’ in face of pandemic’s massive impact
Ed Sheridan finds out how some of Hackney’s minority groups are coping with the coronavirus lockdown
Call goes out to community for donations of PPE to local care organisations
Town Hall works to source emergency stock as masks, goggles, plastic aprons and gloves sought for staff
Much-debated school in former police station wants to double student numbers
Olive School hopes to open with 180 pupils as residents warn of ‘intolerable conflict’ between needs of pupils and ongoing construction
Children’s ward at Homerton Hospital converted for adult Covid-19 patients
Children’s A&E remains fully operational as child inpatients to be transferred to Royal London
Town Hall urged to suspend planning amid community concern over lockdown impact
Hackney Society says residents are right to express unease over a system that ‘already suffers from many barriers to access’