Council tax hike mooted as Hackney faces £60m budget hole
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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Phillips Idowu awarded MBE
The Hackney-born triple jumper is recognised for services to athletics
Black History Month – what’s going on
Happenings across the borough mark events in the history of the African diaspora
Interview: Consequences author Emeka Egbounu
The Citizen talks to Emeka Egbounu about his new book and about growing up in Hackney
Zombies rise up in Stoke Newington in protest against Sainsbury’s supermarket plans
Stoke Newington residents in ghoulish gear are dead against the proposed new store near Abney Park Cemetery
Drive – review
Hollywood’s new star Ryan Gosling is the man behind the wheel in Nicolas Winding Refn’s violent and intense film
East London celebrates Pride
Hundreds march peacefully from Hackney Town Hall despite the recent controversies over the appearance of ‘gay-free zone’ stickers
Britney Spears shoots Criminal video as council bars gang drama filming on Hackney estates
Replica gun used at Stoke Newington Town Hall as council fears residents risk having ‘neighbourhoods stigmatised’
Ken Livingstone on riots, debt and the end of the world
Labour’s London mayoral candidate has offered a group of sixth form students his recipe for reviving the capital
After the riots: the Hackney worker teaching young men to be ambitious
Youth worker Emeka Egbuonu’s book has much to teach policymakers following the riots, writes Rachel Williams
Frustration fallout after EastEnders declines Olympic Park move
The BBC’s decision not to move the production base of its flagship soap to the Games broadcast centre makes the job of filling that space in the long term more difficult
Hackney wards to be redrawn in Boundary Commission shake-up plan
The number of councillors and the size and shape of wards is set to change in advance of the next local elections in 2014
The Saturday interview: Mossbourne academy’s Sir Michael Wilshaw
Sir Michael Wilshaw is the super-strict head at Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and is rumoured to become the new head of Ofsted. Can he repeat Mossbourne’s success nationwide?