Hackney’s young politicians invite local teenagers to Black History Season launch this weekend
Special guests, music and food on offer as Youth Parliament kicks off two-month celebration
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Borough leader ‘cannot guarantee’ that Hackney Carnival will return next year
The annual event was cancelled last month following the Queen’s death
Town Hall to host Winter Warmer event for older residents in council housing – with advice on how to beat the cold and keep costs down
Free massages and activities on offer as annual get-together returns for first time since 2019
‘Makes a big difference’: Organisers of Halloween food bank trail urge residents and businesses to sign up
Donate supplies while out and about in Hackney on 31 October as Trick or Eat returns for fourth year
Cyber attack recovery effort cost Hackney Council over £12m last year
Town Hall thanks residents for ‘continued patience’, with October 2020 hack still under investigated at National Crime Agency
De Beauvoir residents launch Heat Exchange so people can donate £400 energy rebate to neighbours in need
Scheme co-founder Stephen Grosz encourages other areas in Hackney to do the same
Cézanne: The EY Exhibition, Tate Modern, review: ‘A painter of nature’
More than 80 paintings make up the first major display of the artist’s work in London since the turn of the century
‘You take the highs with the lows’: London’s ‘only Black-led high street vintage shop’ celebrates 10 years in Hackney
The Citizen catches up with Rekindled owner Jackie Dacres as she looks back at a decade on Well Street
‘Unjustified’: Hundreds of motorcyclists protest Hackney Council’s plans for ‘eye-watering’ parking charges
Around 300 people gather at the Town Hall to condemn proposals that could see riders paying up to £6 an hour
After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’
Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’
Hackney Council defends plan to restructure libraries as unions promise to fight any job losses
Town Hall proposals, which it hopes will save £300,000, could lead to 19 jobs being scrapped
‘Cost-of-living crisis will mean tough decisions on budgets,’ warns Hackney’s chief executive
Mark Carroll, who took up the job last year, says the council will have to do ‘things we don’t want to do’
‘I’ve seen a hell a lot of change’: Legendary Hackney film director launches 50-year retrospective in Shoreditch
John Smith, who Jarvis Cocker calls his ‘favourite British filmmaker’, will show 50 of his works over 10 weeks
Chapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’
Launched at Hackney Archives last month, these memoirs were said by the late novelist to ‘hold the key to his writing’
Council ‘determined’ to forge ahead with Kings Hall Leisure Centre refurbishment despite ‘significant financial challenges’
Town Hall procurement committee set to approve £35m plans – with ‘doing nothing simply not an option’
Greenpeace Shoreditch volunteers raise money for ‘boulder barrier’ to thwart industrial fishing in English Channel
Local residents helped bring in more than £5k for the charity’s campaign to protect oceans