Bailiffs come knocking for over 700 benefit claimants to recover council tax
The council says it does not ‘take the decision to use Enforcement Agents lightly’
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SEND forecast around £9m more than agreed budget
The council scrapped changes to funding following protests – but is going ahead with cuts
London Fields tower block where bricks fell 100 feet faces a year of ‘major repairs’
‘Extensive corrosion’ caused brickwork to slide away from the top of Morland Estate last November – landing close to a primary school
Craft Half: Beer-fuelled charity race coming to Hackney
Anti-poverty group Street Child says September event will pay for school places for kids across the globe
Two people rescued from council tower block after fire on 10th floor
Elderly pair led to safety following blaze this morning at the Trelawney Estate in Hackney Central
Council forks out thousands to upgrade body-worn cameras for enforcement officers
Community safety team predicts the enhancements will lead to a £14k overspend
Hate crime consultation receives just 69 responses
The number of offences in the borough has increased by 332 since last year
Hackney at Pride: Drag royalty join council staff for ‘solidarity march’
120 locals put on a colourful show for the annual LGBTQI+ parade
Mayor launches art gallery project to build community-inspired model of future Hoxton
Large-scale replica of the area is on show at PEER gallery – and will evolve based on residents’ ideas
Come along to a summer fun day on Daubeney Fields
Celebrate London National Park City week in Hackney
Campaigners considering legal action after council approves Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall’s plan for 11 ‘genuinely affordable’ homes gets go-ahead – but new, permanent site for garden fails to win over opponents
Hackney Carnival project for young adults with autism returns this summer
Two local theatre companies team up again to bring back the popular Carnival Collective
Campaigners stage ‘satirical’ dodgeball protest outside oil giant’s clean energy festival
Activists, including local group Divest Hackney, take aim at Shell’s ‘sickeningly cynical’ Make the Future event
Comic – Save Hackney Wick
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the predicament facing one of Hackney’s most creative quarters
‘Deities, not dinner’: Hackney and a plant-based past
Our resident food historian Gillian Riley points out that the vivid, varied vegan food we can now enjoy around the borough is rooted in traditions from hundreds of years ago
Titbits – football fever, Feryal fury and the environmental approach to sex
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough