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The council can learn from the police’s admission that it’s training in people skills doesn’t fit the bill
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Town Hall reveals ‘tight action plan’ in response to damning report on care services
Community health director expresses ‘deep regret that more watchful eye was not kept’
Conservative councillor refuses Town Hall food over ‘stolen parking money’
Housing director labels claims ‘absurd’ and ‘based on a false premise’
Ms Paolini’s Phantasmagoria Cabaret returns to Hackney
The Italian performer is back at Hoxton Hall next month with an evening of mime, dance, music and comedy
Council surprise as Hackney police to receive ‘conflict resolution’ training – for the first time
Police officers to be trained in ‘how to prevent things escalating out of control’ in Hackney and Tower Hamlets pilot
JSS Bach, Martin Goodman, book review: ‘Searing pain endures for generations’
In a book twenty years in the making, the local author ‘treads delicately around identity, values and life purpose’
Shoreditch Art Wall: Businessman set to sue developers over alleged ‘broken agreement’
Peter Mackeonis launches campaign to fund legal bid after another company was put in charge of the wall – but developer says it has done everything ‘by the book’
Talking rubbish: Council loses track of fly-tipping rates for a whole year
Hackney Lib Dems accuse the Town Hall of not taking the problem seriously
Borough’s rough sleeping rise an ‘outrage’, says housing needs chief
Government called upon to “use its powers to make a difference” as rates rise Londonwide by 13 per cent
Energy boss plans ‘roadshow’ to sign up boroughs for joint renewables drive
Calls made to use London councils’ collective purchasing power to ‘move markets’
Would you like to hold an event on Dalston Roof Park?
Bootstrap Charity is inviting people to host community events at its rooftop venue on Wednesdays, with no hire fee – find out how to apply
Campaign group urges council to give greater protection to green space
Daubeney Fields Forever criticises defence that community designation powers exist in national policy as ‘disingenuous’
Hoxton man wrongly jailed for murder loses lengthy compensation battle
Sam Hallam, who spent seven years in prison before his conviction was quashed in 2012, left ‘very disappointed’ by Supreme Court ruling
New exhibition by Jewish youth group celebrates Stamford Hill’s post-war ‘pioneers’
Teen Action’s history of the area between 1950 and 1980 opened at Hackney Archives last week
Diane Abbott’s constituency Labour Party backs her in BBC ‘media bias’ row
Hackney North Labour releases statement supporting the MP following her Question Time appearance earlier this month
Empty homes crackdown as Town Hall doubles tax for absent owners
More than 400 properties currently qualify for the hike, which could raise an extra £200k a year