‘Robot pets to world-saving tech’: Children’s visions of the future go on display in Hackney as part of charity project
Stories by youngsters from the Literacy Pirates are on hoardings on Northchurch Road throughout summer
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Hackney Council scraps this year’s Clissold fireworks with finances ‘under pressure’
Parks chief says the council has to ‘weigh up priorities’ as inflation and costs rise
De Beauvoir by-election: Six candidates vying for votes ahead of polling tomorrow
The by-election was called after the resignation of a Labour councillor just two weeks after May’s local elections
Forty Hackney schools sign up to Town Hall’s climate education programme – as councillor celebrates pupils’ activism
Environment chief Cllr Mete Coban praises ‘inspiring’ students taking part in Eco-Schools initiative
Politicians hail ‘world-class’ revamp of Clapton special school – as building’s pioneering past revealed
The Pavilion’s £2m restoration has created 50 new places for children with special educational needs
Local artist celebrates ‘home videos and the joys of poor acoustics’ in Hoxton exhibition
Moi Tran’s Civic Sound Archive runs until September at PEER gallery
‘Magical’: New £40k playground at Hoxton school proves an instant hit
Pupils at Thomas Fairchild enjoy new play area featuring sand pit, monkey bars and even a teepee
Hackney secondary smashes stereotypes by introducing Rugby Fives – a sport traditionally limited to elite private schools
Pupils at Stoke Newington School are ‘getting so much out of the game’
‘Devastation’: Residents on Hackney estate urge council to stop using weedkiller after their herbs were destroyed
Calls for biodiversity training for Town Hall contractors after plants on Kingsgate estate were laid to waste
Health experts to discuss ways to stop people dying from pollution at Hackney scrutiny meeting
Imperial College’s Dr Ian Mudway will tell councillors about the impact of dirty air on lungs and mental health
De Beauvoir by-election: Labour hopeful promises to be a ‘strong advocate for local people’
Joe Walker, director of Clapton Commons and the Round Chapel, says he has a ‘grassroots understanding of the ward’s key issues’
The Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’
Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’
An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’
Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’
Police investigating string of sexual assaults in Hackney Marshes make third arrest
Sixteen-year-old boy remains in custody after being taken in on Wednesday
‘It’s our local park’: Primary school pupils fight for ‘basic right’ to have playtime in De Beauvoir Square
Candidates for upcoming De Beauvoir by-election line up in support of the children following complaints from local residents
‘They are so beautiful’: Delight in Hackney as two sculptures are unveiled outside the Town Hall to mark Windrush Day
Thomas J Price says his nine-foot-tall figures of a Black woman and a Black man are a ‘celebration of the Windrush generation’