Councillor set for £6,000 pay rise as Deputy Mayor after cabinet reshuffle
Feryal Demirci could earn more than £50,000 thanks to her new job title
Jonathan McShane
Hackney agrees £4 million deal to combine ‘stop smoking’ services
Health chief McShane says the deal will make service accountable
‘Right and proper’: Homerton Hospital to go smoke-free in 2018
Chief nurse says hospital is ‘falling into line’ with total smoking ban
Fast food near schools: Hackney eighth worst in England
Council began restricting new takeaways in 2015, but has no powers to shut down existing ones
Hackney among worst boroughs in London for health inequality, new figures show
Only residents in Tower Hamlets and Haringey spend longer in ill health, as Town Hall cites ‘financial deprivation’ and better life expectancy
Hackney Road Recreation Ground set to be renamed after ‘notable Hackney citizen’
Green space near St Leonard’s Church and Columbia Road would be rechristened “Fairchild’s Garden” after famous horticulturalist Thomas Fairchild
‘Clear’ support for pathology services staying at Homerton, watchdog says
Healthwatch Hackney says dozens of patients, doctors and health workers rejected outsourcing at a meeting held last week amid fears for lab’s future
Literacy on the high seas: Hackney Pirates looks back on an incredible six years
Pioneering afterschool club’s founder Catriona Maclay looks back on its successes thus far
Titbits – tobacco money and ‘nebulous’ decision-making
Council’s Stop Smoking services remain at odds with its investment in tobacco, whilst freesheet Hackney Today defends its editorial policy over Passing Clouds
Quitters a ‘priority’ but council failing to kick its own tobacco habit
No cuts to Stop Smoking services in Hackney despite council investing millions in tobacco through pension fund
Cllr Philip Glanville selected as Labour mayoral candidate
Current deputy mayor beats three rivals to win Labour nomination to become Hackney’s next mayor
Titbits – a lackadaisical ex-councillor, a party for London and farewell to Jules Pipe
Read the column that pecks at the crumbs of what’s going on in the borough
Mudern art: tonne of soil from Hackney Marshes transported to Tate
East Marsh topsoil used to fill planters in Abraham Cruzvillegas’ exhibition Empty Lot on now in the Turbine Hall
Hopes for referendum on future of Haggerston Baths quashed
Council says it must have final say on future of Grade II-listed Whiston Road bathhouse
From pool to brewery? Future of Haggerston Baths up for debate
Public meeting to be held to discuss options ranging from a swimming pool, to a brewery, flats and offices
Plans to build on Hackney Marshes get green light
Inquiry finds in favour of new sports pavilion as objections from environmental groups are overruled