New yuletide home for Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market
Popular market expands for Christmas in new temporary location
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Nana launches home-cooked cafe at Clapton pub
The enterprising ‘older ladies’ of NANA have started a café serving up traditional food at affordable prices
Sightseers – review
Co-writers Steve Oram and Alice Lowe star in this chilling campsite comedy from the makers of Kill List
Mentally ill Hackney man jailed for hospital arson has prison sentence quashed
Mother vows to keep fighting against the criminalisation of mental health patients
The Hackney Debate – Secondary schools: is parental choice paramount?
This year’s Hackney Debate asked whether Government reforms are creating healthy diversity or dangerous fragmentation in secondary schools
The butcher, the baker and the bag maker – East End Trades Guild launches
Independent traders in East London join forces to resist threat of rising rents and competition from big companies
Hackney students visit Auschwitz death camps
Students visit Nazi camps in Poland to study the dangers of racism and prejudice
Campaigners put wheels in motion for improved cycle routes
Congested towpaths are the result of poor cycle routes on the roads, says Hackney Friends of the Earth
Council ‘kill-joys’ lack Christmas spirit say Broadway Market traders
Cafés warned against providing tables and chairs for public use ‘without a licence’
Boff calls on Boris to take Council to task over London Living Wage
Town Hall urged to take action as contracted employees found to receive less than London Living Wage
Season of goodwill helps Hackney Winter Night Shelter meet demand
With more volunteers than ever, the Night Shelter is opening for an extra two months this year
Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is! Hackney Council’s constitutional confusion over tweeting in meetings
Councillors go against their constitution by using electronic devices in Town Hall meetings
Leader – Anti-Veolia deputation fails the ‘spirit test’
Hackney Council’s reasons for preventing a resident speak at a council meeting are puzzling and perhaps disingenuous
Hackney Council’s spending on festive lights dazzles
Town Hall spends more than neighbouring boroughs on festive lights despite residents being worst hit by cuts, according to a new report
Newington Green Unitarian Church approved for civil partnerships
Hackney takes a step closer to equal marriage rights