Happy New Year 2019 to all our readers!
The Hackney Citizen wishes everyone a happy, safe and peaceful New Year
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Hackney artists to feature at 2019’s London Art Fair
Works by up-and-comers and household names will be on show at the annual exhibition, which returns to Islington next month
Happy Christmas from the Hackney Citizen!
We’ll be back on 31 December – until then, enjoy some festive content from our archive
Winter Toy Appeal: Thousands of the borough’s poorest children to get a gift after huge response
Organisers thank the public for their generosity and the volunteers who help them spread festive cheer
Carved-up Stik mural to get Polish homecoming after four-year wrangle with London gallery boss
Stik hails ‘step forward for artists’ rights’ as he reveals plans to restore a community mural in Gdansk that was chopped up and sold off without his knowledge
Town Hall ponders crime hotline for reporting suspicious activity
Council to explore ‘route for parents and members of the community to raise concerns’
Homelessness charity launches winter campaign with video shot by Hackney filmmaker
Rob Newman’s film shows how finding a home is often just the first step on the road to recovery
‘We’ve gone back decades’: Unions urge politicians to tackle alleged culture of bullying at Hackney Council
Independent review begins into working culture and practices at council’s housing contact centre and complaints team
Town Hall gears up to provide affordable internet to social housing
Mayor Philip Glanville declares intention to ‘harness our own digital assets and estate for the public good’
Council restoration of Abney Park chapel ruins in sight
‘This historic site will receive lottery grant funding to maintain and improve a green space that residents can enjoy and contribute to a more sustainable Hackney,’ says mayor
Benthal Primary parents ‘thrilled’ as council shelves plans to rebuild school
Council states Shoreditch Park academy still ‘much-needed’ though Save Britannia Leisure Centre campaigners sceptical
St Joseph’s Hospice has been offering Compassionate Community Care since 1905
The Hospice cares for people in East and North East London with life-limiting or terminal illness
‘Hopefully the first of many’: Students impress at Hackney Shed’s first Monologue Slam
Teachers want the theatre company’s acting contest to become an annual, borough-wide event
Whoville listen? Councillors labelled ‘grinches’ as campaigners again call for 100 per cent fossil fuel divestment
Christmas cards from Hackney children calling for end to high-carbon investments delivered to committee as Town Hall defends 50 per cent divestment by 2022 as ‘ambitious’
Yard Sale Pizza, Finsbury Park, food review: ‘Simple, playful, full-flavoured’
The restaurant’s latest ‘love-in’ sees musician Loyle Carner craft a Christmas chilli cracker
EFG London Jazz Festival, Dalston, live music review: ‘Effortlessly cool, utterly mesmerising’
Saxophonist Nubya Garcia and drummer Makaya McCraven lit up EartH as part of November’s 10-day jazz fiesta