Primary school daubed with swastika graffiti for second time in a week
Police are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti appears outside Jubilee Primary School in Cazenove
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Personal details of 15,000 council tenants published online in data leak
Council apologises after botched FoI request sees spreadsheet of personal information leaked online
Hackney Picturehouse scoops ‘Scrooge award’ for scrimping on living wage
Cinema gets ‘gift of coal’ from Citizens UK campaigners while ‘Living Wage Champions’ Sugru celebrated
Man in hospital after building collapses during basement excavation work
Man thought to be construction worker taken to hospital after being injured on Malvern Road site
Victory for New Era estate as Westbrook sells to charitable foundation
New owners Dolphin Square Foundation say they wish to ‘develop a rent policy that is demonstrably fair’
Builders discover time capsule on site of Queen Elizabeth Children’s Hospital
Capsule found by Rydon workers on site of former hospital provides ‘snapshot of life’ from 1902
Third man charged with murder of student Joseph Burke-Monerville
19 year-old London Met student was shot in the head as he sat in a parked car in Lower Clapton
Father jailed for murdering partner and baby daughter in ‘horrific’ attack
Roland McKoy killed partner Valerie Forde and 22-month old daughter Real-Jahzara McKoy with machete and screwdriver
Night shelters to give food and warmth to homeless over Christmas
Donations needed for Hackney Winter Night Shelter and Spitalfields Crypt Trust
Yesodey Hatorah Girls’ School in breach of admissions policy
Office of Schools Adjudicator rules Jewish school must revise its arrangements ‘as quickly as possible’
Studying Mossbourne Academy from the inside
A PhD devoted to Mossbourne written by one of its first employees, Dr Christy Kulz, is a slog of a read but worthwhile
Punters petition to get The Joiners Arms listed as a ‘community asset’
Campaigners seek Asset of Community Value status for ‘legendary’ Shoreditch gay pub facing closure in the new year
Ethiopian food comes Haile recommended
Food historian Gillian Riley discovers the unique culinary heritage of Africa’s oldest independent country
No moor room: canal boat families fight for their own stretch of water on River Lea
Hackney Boating Families seek to create ‘community moorings’ in Lower Clapton
Sowing the seeds of Hackney City Farm
Built on the site of a defunct brewery, the farm was founded 30 years ago on the principle that caring for animals and plants brings people together
Hackney Greens announce general election candidates
Charlotte George will stand in Hackney South and Shoreditch and Heather Finlay in Hackney North and Stoke Newington