Hackney illustrator brings two Mexican icons to a British audience with new graphic novel
Book written by Francisco de la Mora, who creates artwork for the Citizen, explores the life of Diego Rivera and his marriage to Frida Kahlo
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In Bed With My Brother: PRIME_TIME, Barbican, stage review: ‘Skewering of Jeff Bezos that sacrifices facts for funny’
This character assassination of the billionaire Amazon founder is amusing, but informative? Not so much.
Parents urge Town Hall to completely scrap plans to close two children’s centres after they were ‘put on pause’
The council yesterday called a halt to the proposals until it has undertaken a wider review of its early years provision
Extra police to be drafted into Shoreditch to crack down on anti-social behaviour
A team of 25 officers will be patrolling day and night following concerns that the area is returning to the ‘bad old days’
‘Utterly amazing’: Popular Stokey shop named London’s best independent at national greeting card awards
Earlybird on Church Street also scoops accolade for its ‘Window of Hope’ lockdown campaign
How green is Hackney?
In the wake of the COP26 climate conference, Lizzie McAllister looks into how Hackney fares on major environmental issues
Council shelves plans to close two children’s centres in big win for campaigners
Town Hall calls a halt to any closures until it has held a wider review into early years provision next year
Community cookery school launches £150k crowdfunder to help it continue its free meal service for the next year
Made in Hackney wants to raise enough to fund 70,000 meals in 2022 for those most in need
Local MP Diane Abbott backs campaign to save two children’s centres from closure
The two centres in north London are earmarked for closure as the council tries to save £1m to balance the books
Hoxton museum hints that slaver statue could be moved following months of protests
Museum of the Home says there is ‘potential’ for monument of Robert Geffrye to be relocated to a ‘less prominent space’
Local charity launches campaign to support brain injury survivors and families through first stages of rehabilitation
Headway East London is teaming up with the Royal London Hospital to reach more people at earliest opportunity
Hackney pays tribute to the fallen in moving Remembrance Sunday parade
Hundreds gather to honour those who have lost their lives during military service
Hackney’s ‘vital’ community halls reopen for the first time since the start of the pandemic
Spaces of various sizes are available to hire again – with extra precautions in place to combat Covid
Hackney Citizen wins Independent Community Newspaper of the Year at the national newsawards 2021
Editor-in-chief ‘delighted’ as paper is also highly commended in Niche Market Newspaper of the Year category
Homerton Hospital opens escalation ward two months earlier than usual – as health bosses warn people to stay alert to Covid
Covid cases are beginning to rise again in City and Hackney
Ten artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery
Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak