‘My doorstep was cordoned off for smoking’: Arts venue opening fills neighbours with ‘dread’
Alcohol licence for Overlock Arts facing stiff opposition from locals
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Historic Newington Green Meeting House shuts for a year as work begins on £1.8m revamp
The National Lottery is funding a new visitor centre and disabled access – as New Unity church moves out temporarily
Heart-stopping CCTV shows man narrowly avoid a collapsing roof in Stoke Newington
Shocking near miss happened on the busy high street on Sunday as gale-force winds hit the UK
An Opinionated Guide to East London, Hoxton Mini Press, book review: ‘Good browsing material’
The second edition of this guide to east London is a ‘handy source of ideas’
Shush, this is a building site!: Recording studio ‘reassured’ by promise of quiet construction tests
Historic Strongroom Studios secure condition that neighbouring development won’t go ahead without noise controls
Hackney’s female politicians mark International Women’s Day
‘We’re blazing a trail’, says borough’s newest councillor Penny Wrout
Jennette Arnold calls for more blue plaques for women – as Hackney charity welcomes nod for activist Claudia Jones
Hackney’s London Assembly representative says current disparity between men and women ‘nothing to celebrate’
Town Hall slammed for ‘chronic failure’ in releasing data under Freedom of Information
Council responds to only two-thirds of requests within statutory time limit
Fifteen painters join up to explore the ‘underbelly of urban existence’ for Bethnal Green show
Urban Contemporaries at Espacio Gallery features 80 artworks looking at the ‘essential forces of the city experience’
BrewDog bar greenlit despite ire of Dalston residents
Residents’ association raises concerns over cumulative impact
The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
‘Enough is enough’: Bus drivers for Hackney’s disabled children to strike over pay
Trade union hits out at Town Hall ‘intransigence’ over split shift compensation
Ofsted rebukes council over slip in ‘quality of practice for vulnerable children’
Town Hall urged to take swift action over ‘areas of weakness’ in child protection
All hands to The Plough
Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen
Thames Water admits Lea Bridge floods were ‘too much’ for it to handle
‘If this was in another country, you would have had the Red Cross there, because it was that devastating’
Titbits – Sugar hits and cabinet splits
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough