Charedi orthodox children missing out on free school meals
‘No child should have just bread for their lunch. It’s very upsetting.’
Deputy Mayor
Increase in councillors’ allowances approved
Every councillor can claim a basic annual allowance of £12,014.
Benthal Primary parents ‘thrilled’ as council shelves plans to rebuild school
Council states Shoreditch Park academy still ‘much-needed’ though Save Britannia Leisure Centre campaigners sceptical
Outcry increases over plans to close all Hackney’s Overground ticket offices
Council considers proposals ‘unacceptable’ as Hackney Disability BackUp and RMT voice opposition
‘Local shops will suffer’: Traders speak out over Stamford Hill cycle lane plans
Council defends proposed route as part of commitment to safer roads and cleaner air
Council to go sugar-free after signing healthy food pledge
Bid to tackle obesity includes planned crackdown on sugary drinks advertising across Hackney
Hackney in UK’s bottom five for pollution purged by trees
Council restates commitment to plant additional 1,000 trees over next four years
Hackney’s Deputy Mayor welcomes MPs’ SEND inquiry – but campaigners dismiss probe as PR effort
‘We don’t need an inquiry to tell us what’s going wrong’
Hackney Deputy Mayor to scrap SEND funding changes – but five per cent cuts will go ahead
Cabinet will tonight formally drop the changes and set up a parents working group
Anntoinette Bramble to become deputy mayor of Hackney
Leaked list shows makeup of new top team of politicians in charge at Town Hall
You’re hired! Sophie Linden accepted as London’s deputy mayor for policing and crime despite ‘worst CV ever seen’
Police and crime committee ‘deeply disappointed at paucity and shortness’ of nominee’s supporting documents and questions her judgment
Titbits – councillors, cuckoo mayors and Linden’s day out
Read the column that pecks at the crumbs of what’s going on in the borough
Letter: Deputy Mayor disputes cost saving of dumping green energy
Councillor Sophie Linden says Hackney Citizen is ‘misleading’ over the cash Hackney Council saved when it quietly dumped its ‘green’ electricity tariff