Hackney parents slam ‘catastrophic’ plans to cut high needs funding
Council’s proposal to ‘speed up funding process’ could see support slashed by up to 90 per cent
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Haggerston Baths: Future to be decided next week – but no new pool
Preferred bid for iconic building’s redevelopment to go before Cabinet on Monday
Council issues stubborn response to Hackney Today legal threat
Government has ordered the Town Hall to cut back its freesheet by February
Charity launches urgent £100k appeal to save playground for disabled children
‘Lifeline for hundreds of families’ facing closure due to lack of funding
Broken masonry ‘crashes 100 feet’ from London Fields council block
No reports of injuries so far after debris was left scattered across the road next to Morland Estate
Controversial PSPO is back in Hackney – but ‘only relates to alcohol’
The council axed its previous PSPO in 2015 after it was slammed for ‘criminalising the homeless’
The Unburied: The Saint of Darkness, play review, Rose Lipman Building: ‘song, movement, light and poetry’
The ‘Mother Theresa meets Greek mythology’ plot may be a tad obtuse, but this memorable piece of dark, poetic theatre makes the most of its unusual staging
Raising Hackney: Diane Abbott and Mayor Glanville celebrate Northwold Estate community centre
The community centre is celebrating a new name and the involvement of a new charity
Modern Art is Rubbish: Gavin Turk on making a packet – literally – for the Skip Gallery
“I look back at the rubbish and think “shit, that rubbish can tell us the story of everything!”
Council to hand out flowers ahead of domestic violence awareness drive
Town Hall supporting UK charity’s ‘Blooming Strong’ campaign with 16 days of activism
Hackney Quakers make amends for disowning radical anti-slavery dwarf 300 years ago
North London branch hoping to ‘resuscitate the memory’ of revolutionary abolitionist Benjamin Lay
‘Deliberately unclear’: Residents slam council over ‘misleading’ Dalston plans
Scathing consultation response leads council to accept ‘distrust’ over its motives for regeneration
The Lower Clapton Tales, Carolyn Clark, book review: plus ça change…
Think you know ‘Clop Ton’? We wager you’ll glean something new from this “charming book of memories, photographs and historical artefacts”
Grenfell: Over 100,000 people join call for £1 billion Whitehall sprinkler fund
Labour’s ‘Make Homes Safe’ petition was hand-delivered to the Treasury today
Your chance to win a FREE ticket to a Russian Revolution documentary
Students and those unemployed can take advantage of the offer to attend a screening of ‘myth-busting’ film 1917: Why The Russian Revolution Matters – without paying a rouble
Help pick out local landmarks to ‘preserve Hackney’s character’
Council asks residents to nominate their favourites for its heritage list