Titbits – Hunger games, weighty revelations and underground sartorial frustrations
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
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Moving scenes as Town Hall passes motion to tackle rare cancers
‘All too often rare or less common cancers come as an afterthought. That can’t be the case anymore’
Council business chief unveils local plan in ‘mighty tome’
New centre connecting Upper and Lower Clapton Road proposed, with attention given to ‘urban heat island’ effect
Councillors reject government’s ‘end of austerity’ claim
‘We’ve been told that austerity is coming to an end. It doesn’t feel like it’s over here’
Five U-turns in two days: Council confusion over by-election purdah
Misunderstanding caused by variability of approaches to single-ward electoral contests, Town Hall says
‘Startling’ figures reveal hundreds of breast cancer screening cancellations
‘There is a national shortage of qualified mammographers and this shortage is impacting services nationwide’
Council to go sugar-free after signing healthy food pledge
Bid to tackle obesity includes planned crackdown on sugary drinks advertising across Hackney
BAME business owners slam council for seeming to “not care” about them
‘There’s a feeling that these Johnny-come-latelies who weren’t even born when we did what we did are getting all the benefits’
Community safety chief responds to forum on gun and knife crime
‘We take tackling violence extremely seriously – in doing so, it’s important that we listen to a range of voices, experiences and views’
Dalston Labour councillor re-elected by 21 votes after dramatic recount
Peter Snell was only up one vote on his Green challenger in the first count
Mayoral candidates quizzed at Hackney Citizen hustings at the Arcola Theatre
Panel answers questions at sold-out event ahead of elections
Labour and Lib Dems clash on knife crime policy – as Caroline Selman says proposals are nothing new
Hackney Liberal Democrats say Violence Reduction Unit would ‘treat violence like a disease’
Leader – Political persuasions
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Momentum U-turns on open selection to protect ‘four left-wing councillors’ from non-Corbynite challengers
Group had earlier called open selection ‘democratic’ and the ‘best option’ for socialists
Campaigners ‘mystified’ over Diane Abbott’s failure to sign fossil fuel pledge
Hackney MP’s team cites ‘Shadow Cabinet protocol’ and unfair media scrutiny
‘Selfless’ Diane Abbott celebrated at Queen of Hoxton after hashtag craze
#AbbottAppreciation creator Stephanie Ozuo honours Hackney MP