Fortnightly waste collections move closer with council vote next week
Proposals aimed at boosting recycling and sending less rubbish for incineration saw the biggest ever response to a council consultation
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One Saturday in 82 on Broadway Market, Stuart Goodman, book review: ‘Every photo is worth a second look – and then a third’
The street has made headlines for the wrong reasons during lockdown, so what better time to remember its history through this ‘charming’ snapshot?
Council considering how to restart housing repairs after lockdown
Majority of projects, including widespread fire door installations, currently on hold
Domestic abuse referrals up 60 per cent in Hackney during lockdown
Town Hall’s intervention service says restrictions are ‘creating more opportunity for perpetrators to hurt and control victims’
Town Hall road safety roll-out continues with closure of Barnabas Road
Surge in motor vehicle traffic expected following government advice to avoid public transport unless absolutely necessary
Coronavirus: ‘It’s not just the health inequities of people of colour that should be up for debate’
The disproportionate number of Covid deaths among the BAME population ‘underscores the inescapable extent of inequality in modern Britain’, writes Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley
Poetry: Car Sick by Tamara von Werthern
The award-winning playwright finds herself at the mercy of a driver with a death wish as she tries to make sense of Boris Johnson’s latest speech
Antony and Cleopatra, National Theatre Live on YouTube, stage review: ‘As long as the Nile but not quite as fertile’
The 2018 production of Shakespeare’s classic, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo in the title roles, is available to watch right now
Coronavirus: Delivery of wrong tests to blame for delays at mobile centre in Dalston, says council
Accounting firm Deloitte blamed for mix-up as campaigners call for end to private companies’ involvement in testing effort
Education boss slams government’s lack of clarity on reopening schools
‘June 1st seems early given that schools don’t have the guidelines,’ says Deputy Mayor
Local brain injury charity launches emergency appeal to combat ‘significant losses’
Headway East London is hoping to raise £10k to maintain its vital support for vulnerable members during lockdown
Beanz meanz…
In search of a suitable lockdown subject, our resident food historian hits upon a humble tin of black-eyed beans in her kitchen cupboard
Lockdown? Lock-in! festival, Breakin’ Convention on YouTube, dance review: ‘Isolating but not isolated’
The 15th annual hip-hop extravaganza is a bit different this year, but ‘the same love, respect and connectivity’ is on show
Council health boss hopes any easing of lockdown will be ‘relatively limited’
Cllr Chris Kennedy says restrictions should be kept in place ‘for another couple of weeks’
Coronavirus: Local politicians challenge government to trial contact-tracing and testing in Hackney
Local MPs and mayor tell health secretary Matt Hancock he could do with a ‘bit more Shoreditch and less Whitehall’ in his approach
VIDEO: Interview with the Mayor of Hackney on coronavirus and lockdown
Philip Glanville sits down with local democracy reporter Ed Sheridan for a virtual conversation about the pandemic’s impact on the borough