‘Celebrating 25 Years’: council throws party for long-service staff
Recognition for those who have given their whole working lives, including road sweepers, cleaners and library workers
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‘Stolen joy’: Community radio station launches fundraiser after burglary
Broadcasting equipment and cash was stolen from Reel Rebels’ studio in Stoke Newington on Tuesday
More than 600 Hackney council homes sold under right-to-buy in six years
Mayor urges government to end ‘arbitrary regulations’ on housing
St Mary’s Church to host ‘community sleepout’ for homelessness campaign
Volunteers will spend a night outside on 29 June – under the billboards that have already set tongues wagging in Stoke Newington
Hackney libraries get set for 2018’s Summer Reading Challenge
This year’s theme is ‘Mischief Makers’, inspired by the 80th anniversary of the popular Beano comics
DriveNow: your flexible car club in Hackney – try it out with 30 free minutes
Find out how you can drive a BMW or MINI in London by the minute, hour or day. Only pay when you drive with everything included
Hackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours
Art gallery director Ingrid Swenson and construction industry giant Kath Moore both receive gongs
Curtain (almost) up: Work on new Hackney theatre nears completion
86-year-old Tower Theatre Company set to begin season in September
Marian Court demolition and revamp approved with fewer social rent homes
Twelve-storey council scheme green-lit by planning chiefs
Artworks by brain injury survivors to feature in new Hackney Museum show
‘The Mind’s Eye’, a selection of art from Homerton Hospital, opens next week
Town Hall moots taking government to court over freesheet Hackney Today
Judicial review ‘one option’ after direction to cut paper back to quarterly
‘Overbearing’ London Fields block approved despite neighbour’s privacy fears
Helen Mead said the scheme would mean ‘a wall of windows watching my every move’
Comic – Closing Down / Coming Soon (a Hackney thinking game)
Our artist Francisco de la Mora puts a local spin on the ‘Where’s Wally?’ genre
Woman catches Lyme disease from tick bite at Clissold Park, say residents
Hackney Council says only a small percentage of ticks carry the disease but urges people to check themselves after a park outing
Lincoln Court residents launch petition against council plans to turn play space into housing
Hackney mayor calls the effort a ‘campaign against council housing during a housing crisis’
Kollier din-Bangura interview: ‘society is not ready for a black guy to be in a gallery or to own a gallery’
We met with the sculptor and longstanding Dalston cultural entrepreneur, for a discussion covering black enterprise, gentrification and the loss of creative communities