Daubeney Fields playground transformation an ‘instant hit’ with families
Council and local community turn ‘bleak’ 1970s rec ground into a natural play space with an outdoor classroom
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‘True celebration’: Latin music festival draws 30,000 people to Finsbury Park
Singers and dancers from across the UK wowed the crowd at La Clave Fest earlier this month
Charity appeals for volunteers to help blind people in Hackney use specially adapted radios
British Wireless for the Blind Fund’s devices allow people to enjoy podcasts, books, talking newspapers and more
Diane Abbott signs up for local bookshop’s Women of Westminster event
The Hackney MP will join Labour colleague Rachel Reeves and historian Diane Atkinson to discuss the successes of female parliamentarians over the past century
‘Real sense of history’: Family photos donated by Hackney women on display at Sutton House
Cherelle Sappleton’s exhibition, featuring snaps gifted by the local community, offers a highly personal glimpse into the borough’s past
Council forced to cut back Hackney Today after court rejects its appeal
Hackney Mayor ‘extremely disappointed’ as Town Hall considers how to replace its controversial freesheet
Council to put up warnings about ticks after woman reports catching Lyme disease in Clissold Park
Andrea Smyth says she was bitten last month in the same dog-free zone where a jogger purportedly caught the disease in 2018
2019: A Space odyssey
Hackney stalwart Space Studios’ Mare Street gallery is relocating to Ilford in the autumn. The charity’s chief exec Anna Harding talks about the move, and picks out her personal highlights from the past 16 years
Leader – What will it take?
The death of any homeless person is a stain on those with real power to do something – not just the ones that happen so publicly
Titbits – Tory blues, Mayor stews and hold the front page, we’ve got breaking… information
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
More than 40 Hackney streets could close to traffic for Car-Free Day in September
Council announces plan to ban vehicles from Stoke Newington Church Street on 22 September, with residents encouraged to take part
Extinction Rebellion: Free six-month display to be unveiled at V&A Museum of Childhood
The exhibition in Bethnal Green, centred on the activist group’s family-friendly work, is part of a wider partnership that will see its designs go on show at the V&A’s Rapid Response gallery
Three Hackney residents named in national 100 Women in Cycling list
Cycling UK’s annual line-up, which features well-known names alongside grassroots campaigners, recognises achievements in the promotion of women’s cycling
Thirty-seven Hackney primary schools sign up for census lessons
A free course created by the Office for National Statistics is being rolled out ahead of the next national headcount in 2021
Transport for London lays out plans for new Cycleway between Dalston and Lea Bridge
Public can have a say on the first phase of the route, which is designed to make it easier to get around east London on foot or by bike
Actor Tracy Ann Oberman ‘truly moved’ by visit to Jewish primary in Hackney
The former EastEnders star discussed her life and her fight against antisemitism with journalist Jonathan Freedland at Simon Marks School earlier this month