Coronavirus: Homerton Hospital to see fivefold increase in intensive care beds
Chief nurse reveals that around 12 per cent of the hospital’s workforce is in isolation
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Coronavirus: Keeping your secondary-age kids busy and learning at home
Teacher and Hackney resident Alice Jones offers up useful tips and resources to help parents and pupils cope with the school closures
Un Deux Trois, Juniore, album review: ‘Catchy avant-pop perfection’
With Hackney under lockdown, what better time to update your playlist? Here’s one to consider, as France’s finest return with their signature 60s-inspired sound…
Coronavirus: Find out which local businesses are still delivering with My Virtual Neighbourhood
Hackney team behind new website calls on residents to help the ‘amazing businesses on their doorsteps survive’
Coronavirus: Hackney primary schools launch urgent appeal for laptops
Around 400 children at Gayhurst, Kingsmead and Mandeville need computers at home as schools run out
Coronavirus: Town Hall unveils crisis funding for over 20,000 vulnerable households
Financial care package includes automatic tax rebates and an extra £500k for emergency support fund
Coronavirus: Transport chief slams guidance for councils on parking as ‘unworkable mess’
Cllr Jon Burke fears advice to cease enforcement could spark ‘collapse in availability for key workers’
Poetry: Not even… by Tamara von Werthern
The award-winning local playwright on life in lockdown
VIDEO: The Citizen Gardener on how to run a wormery
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland shows you how to make compost using worms
Hackney Giving launches fundraising appeal for a Coronavirus Response Fund
The grants-giver, run by borough stalwart Hackney CVS, hopes to collect £30k to help groups working with vulnerable people
Coronavirus: Made in Hackney launches free food delivery service for vulnerable people
Community cookery school teams up with local restaurant to provide plant-based meals for those most in need
Coronavirus: Citizen Gardener sets up seed giveaway for people who want to grow at home
Kate Poland has filled a donation box at Hackney City Farm with seeds suited to pots and small spaces
Coronavirus: Town Hall launches volunteering hub to harmonise local efforts
Hackney Mayor says system will provide a ‘robust, safe and sustainable’ way for people to support one another
Poetry: Perfect Storm by Tamara von Werthern
The award-winning local playwright shares her intimate response to the coronavirus crisis
VIDEO: Hackney Herbal founder Nat Mady on how to sow lettuce seeds
The local herb specialist shares her tips on growing your own food while stuck at home during the coronavirus lockdown
A plea to parents: ‘Kindness to strangers can be measured precisely – it is two metres’
A local resident and park-goer with an underlying health condition appeals to families to take social distancing seriously