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New Year Honours 2023: Hackney councillor Susan Fajana-Thomas made OBE
“A well deserved award for services to local government in Hackney and beyond’ says Mayor
Austerity: Platina, Martino and the New Cuisine
Our resident food historian puts Christmas behind us with a look at the ‘simple tastes’ of the Italian Rennaissance humanists
Lucy McCormick: Lucy & Friends: ‘Awkward, unhinged and unimaginably good’ theatre review
‘A disarming ability to pull something charming out of total chaos’
Oranj: ‘One to watch’ – natural wine bar review
A new natural wine bar in Shoreditch shines where it should, but needs ‘some time to mature’
Hackney’s libraries put out call for unwanted toys ahead of January gift appeal
People will be able to drop off toys and games at public libraries in the new year
‘Deeply concerning’: Housing watchdog takes swipe at council for ‘high maladministration’ when handling complaints
Town Hall concedes that it is ‘not where we want to be as a service’ but says it ‘always looks to learn from any complaint’
Hackney councillor says cash-free society will be ‘devastating’ for many residents – and urges businesses to keep the change
Cllr Clare Joseph’s Cash Welcome Here campaign recently won support from Hackney Council, which will accept cash at all of its facilities
‘Interesting and insightful’: Hackney students deliver lectures on gentrification, social media and local education
Hackney Young Lecturers scheme saw three teenagers deliver ‘fresh, intelligent’ takes on key issues
Hackney entrepreneurs help create innovative pop-up shop for project designed to ‘bring high street back to life’
London Made Me saw 14 businesses from across London join forces to build a temporary shop on Regent Street
‘Expressing solidarity’: Campaigners gather outside Homerton Hospital in support of national nursing strikes
Despite nurses at the hospital narrowly missing out on joining the action, supporters still turned up to demand better pay for them
Council invites residents to donate coats at Hackney’s libraries – with winter swap scheme in ‘very high demand’
All seven public libraries have coats available to people in need of an extra layer
‘Not a lifestyle issue’: Council repairs service changes tack on damp and mould following death of toddler in Rochdale
Town Hall aiming to respond to problems within 24 hours after Awaab Ishak, 2, died from a respiratory illness brought on by mould
‘Using all means at our disposal’: Fifteen Hackney sites earmarked for council housing – as scheme to build more than 1,000 new homes kicks on
Town Hall ‘looking for suitable locations to build homes across all our land’ despite challenging financial landscape
Hackney Design Awards: Mayor hails borough’s ‘visionaries’ as this year’s winners announced
Frampton Park Estate and family home in Victoria Park among those crowned at biennial celebration of architecture
Titbits – Festive scrapes and lucky escapes
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough