Hackney community group drafted in by City Hall to help fleeing Hongkongers
Estimates suggest 300,000 could arrive in Britain in the coming years to escape China’s crackdown on free speech
Lizzie McAllister
Mayor’s Civic Awards return from year’s break with call for nominations
Event expanded to make up for cancellation of 2020 awards
Hackney drag queen finishes in the top three on Rupaul’s Drag Race UK
Bimini Bon Boulash became a fan favourite in the popular TV contest
Jennette Arnold urges government to act on low vaccine uptake in Hackney
London Assembly Member for north-east London fears borough could be left ‘vulnerable to future rise in infections’
Campaigners call for ‘high ambition’ as Town Hall announces review of fossil fuel investments
Divest Hackney urges council to ‘go further than it has before’
Hundreds defy police ban to pay respects to Sarah Everard at London Fields
‘We will not allow the state to tell us when and how we can gather to grieve and protest’, says Women’s Strike
Petition calls on council to divest from companies complicit in occupation of Palestine
Town Hall pension fund has £28m invested in firms such as Israel-based arms manfacturer Elbit Systems
Hackney Giving dishes out £690k in Covid grants after smashing fundraising target
Hackney CVS scheme far surpasses initial £50k goal but insists work won’t stop with a successful vaccine
Diane Abbott to pen memoir charting her journey from ‘bespectacled little girl to MP’
Publisher speaks of pride in sharing story of ‘titan of public and political life’
Music’s not dead – how the Premises kept Hackney Road upbeat through the pandemic
Aerosol ‘bombs’ and live streams – the fabled recording studio had to get creative to stay open
International Women’s Day: Memorial set up outside Town Hall to remember ‘struggles of the past year’
Organisers from the Women’s Strike Assembly encouraged people to visit during their daily walks
Into the Crocodile’s Cradle with Simon Moretti
The artist and curator on his ‘chameleonic’ multimedia exhibition now on display at Hoxton’s PEER gallery
PEERing into the world of lockdown art
Artist Savinder Bual on her exhibition at Hoxton’s PEER gallery, and why the first lockdown made her think of a flatfish