Council working with private property owners to remove Grenfell-style cladding
‘We will continue to monitor this and ensure no stone is left unturned to make buildings in Hackney safer,’ says mayor
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‘We don’t use WhatsApp’: Young people deliver Snapchat training to council safeguarding officers
‘Paradigm shift’ in social care underway as Town Hall presents new approach of contextualised safeguarding
Civilization, Flowers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Momentous proportions of contemporary life’
This selection of photographs from a new book beautifully documents modern life
Living Dangerously with Pomegranates
Our resident food historian on the mortal pleasures of this godly fruit
Local author’s Alaskan salmon odyssey nets him prestigious literary prize
Adam Weymouth, who lives on a barge in the River Lea, has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut book
‘Homes not hotels’: Protestors lose out at planning committee as ‘harmful’ Chocolate Studios development gets go-ahead
‘We’re very disappointed. The developers quite clearly stated they couldn’t be bothered to speak to the residents’, says councillor
Number of homes for social rent under completed Woodberry Down plans under scrutiny
Updated plans for seven more socially-rented properties for estate’s Block B approved at planning meeting
Bard in the Yard: New Shakespeare statue to sit near Elizabethan Shoreditch Theatre
Sculpture planned as part of public realm around Hackney’s first official monument
Can you help? Volunteer Centre Hackney calls for ‘angels’ at Christmas
Help needed to check up on neighbours who might be spending the festive season alone
Reformed gang members urge schools to stop excluding pupils at risk of exploitation
Calls made for more outreach workers able to speak to young people ‘from a Hackney perspective’
Juniore, The Victoria, live music review: ‘A warm show of Anglo-French unity’
The Parisian band’s mix of yeye, surf rock and garage swept the audience off its feet
Space found for socially rented flats in new Woodberry Down block
‘It’s a pretty good deal to get, because the figures at the start were slightly different,’ says community organisation chair
FREE full time and part time nursery places for three-year-olds in Hackney
St Mary’s primary School in Stoke Newington is taking applications for January and September intakes
‘Friends! Musicians! Visionaries!’: Town Hall rally planned to protect Strongroom Studios from construction work
Protesters claim ‘developments such as this will kill culture’ as Save Strongroom petition attracts almost 6,000 names
Hackney doctor named one of UK’s best at national GP awards
Dr Gopal Mehta of Richmond Road Medical Centre was highly commended at the illustrious General Practice Awards
Titbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough