Leader – Hackney Council’s gesture politics over betting shops
Town Hall asks Pickles for more power to restrict where bookies can open, but Labour itself opened the floodgates
Hackney Citizen
Car wars as Hackney Council seeks to put brakes on parking at Kingsland Shopping Centre site
Town Hall at odds with developer amid concern over future of Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden
Kingsland Shopping Centre plans: clash with developers over car culture
Parking concerns fuel split amid debate over Eastern Curve Garden’s future
Project to celebrate retired Caribbean nurses’ experiences will host first gathering this month
Scheme by Black Arts Women will result in exhibition at Hackney Museum later this year
Gang culture shot down as Our Lady’s Convent School students get organised to combat crime
Survey carried out by pupils finds safety is top of public’s concerns
Pupils at Hackney’s Nightingale Primary School get cracking with code ahead of curriculum changes
Coding can be like poetry, says teenage prodigy as students strive to emulate Zuckerberg and Jobs
ReachOut, the mentoring scheme in a class of its own, celebrates grades rise
‘Character’ focus advocated by MP Tristram Hunt is at heart of group’s work
Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz School warned against ‘slapping’
Ofsted report warns ultra-religious independent Jewish school not to use corporal punishment
Busker Mike ‘Down Dalston Lane’ Gregovich launches Soul of a Man EP
‘Music man’ who plays behind Kingsland Shopping Centre puts out new five-track recording
Right royal mix-up over dumped mail trolley is sorted after Citizen steps in
Confusion over abandoned object, but ‘post-mortem’ yields no answers
Hackney Council agrees 2014/15 budget and rejects alternative Tory and Lib Dem plans
Protesters staged rally against cuts on steps of Town Hall
Hackney Council’s new parking controls ‘bad for business’ in Victoria Park
Fears trade will be hit, but majority of residents in favour of ramped-up restrictions
Hackney’s historic Bishop Wood Almshouses put up for sale by charity
Homes intended for poor could be turned into luxury flats if snapped up by developer
Over 200 absconders from Hackney’s John Howard Centre in last 13 years
Charity Sane warns of pressure on mental health centres
‘Blatantly an area for families’: regeneration comes to Hackney Wick but tensions remain
Artists fear unique flavour of area risks being lost
Hackney Citizen shortlisted for prestigious Niche Market Newspaper of the Year award
Winner will be announced in early April at ceremony at Hilton hotel on Park Lane