Dawn Carter-McDonald to be appointed as chief executive of Hackney Council
Carter-McDonald has filled the role temporarily for the past 10 months
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Petition to salvage plans for wild swimming park in East London reaches 10,000 signatures
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Core Landscapes, part of Core Arts, is inviting residents to a big launch event on 8 June
Critics round on Woodberry Down plans as next phase narrowly wins approval
A Labour schism meant plans for more than 500 new homes passed by a hair
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‘Source of inspiration’: Civil rights icon James Baldwin to get blue plaque in Dalston
The author and activist will be commemorated at the Hackney CVS building on Dalston Lane, which he visited two years before his death in 1987
Jock McFadyen: Made in Hackney 2, The Grey Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The outside world as a sensory force’
The painter’s new show in London Fields offers paintings you can get lost in
Yard sticks: Hackney theatre that began as a pop-up secures funding for state-of-the-art renovation
Yard Theatre director ‘incredibly proud’ as venue sures up its long-term future
Pro-Palestinian protestors descend on Town Hall to demand end to Israeli weapons investment and Haifa twinning
Amid ongoing conflict in Gaza, local protestors call on Hackney Council to cease funding and axe relationship
The Comeuppance, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Emotional guts and gore’
The UK debut of Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ play is ‘engaging, if not mind-blowing’
Researchers are on the hunt for stories about the Old Fire Station in Stoke Newington
A project team at the iconic community venue is hosting an open day next week – and they’d love to hear people’s memories of the place
Labour’s Sem Moema re-elected as Assembly Member for north-east London
Moema took more than 50 per cent of the vote in a dominant performance
Hackney set for fifth by-election in two years as another Labour councillor quits
Yvonne Maxwell is yet to speak out about her resignation, but said she was ‘free at last’ on social media
Town Hall stands by consultation process as children’s centre campaigners ramp up legal threat
Parents fighting to save two centres from closure send council a letter before claim
Residents on troubled estate slam ‘shoddy’ response from council chief
People living at Pitcairn House welcome apology from Dawn Carter-McDonald, but say they feel ‘gaslighted’