Morland Estate residents to dig deep for new communal garden
Trees for Cities start crowdfunding campaign to help raise £30,000 for garden with fruit orchard and play area
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Music Journalism Bootcamp
Develop the skills every music journalist needs. Monday 24 April – Monday 26 June 2017 (eight weeks, excluding bank holidays)
Hackney hotels to charge guests voluntary donation of £1 a night
Partnership between council and local hotels aims to raise money for new community fund
Council to consult on bringing housing back in-house
Residents and leaseholders to be consulted on proposal to dissolve Hackney Homes
Murderer Lerone Boye convicted for being unlawfully at large
Care worker Dean Ablakwa cleared of all charges
‘Freddy Krueger’ hitman hired by Hackney Turks jailed for life for killing rival gang boss
Police offer £30,000 reward for information on those responsible for ordering the execution
Over ten ‘illegal’ yeshiva schools operating in Stamford Hill
Channel 4 Dispatches programme says it is “shocking” that government and council have known of unregistered schools since 2008
‘Sunstone survivors’ call for closed gym to be given Asset of Community Value status
Former members of women-only gym in Stoke Newington say the gym was a ‘safe space’ and should be protected
Futures – book review: things are never ‘stupid A to B’
Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker
Housing campaigners send spoof eviction notices to 57 councillors
Campaign group Digs posts Section 21 notices in a bid to highlight struggles faced by private renters
Hackney UTC to close due to ‘unviable student numbers’
Low student intake forces closure of government’s flagship technical college that opened its doors just two years ago
Public sector workers prepare to strike over pay
Hackney schools likely to face disruption as teachers take part in mass walkout over wages
Shoreditch ISP takes legal action against GCHQ over mass surveillance
GreenNet part of international collective taking government intelligence agency to court over allegations of network spying
Beyond Caring zeros in on zero-hours contracts
A group of cleaners in a meat factory is the backdrop for Beyond Caring which looks at the impact of zero-hours contracts
Hundreds attend protest over funding cuts to GP surgeries
65th birthday of the NHS marked by rally in London Fields
Carousel review – musical reimaginings
The Arcola’s production of Carousel sets the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical during the Great Depression