Love is in the area: Hackney Valentine’s Day listings
Our guide to some of the more offbeat V Day events – plus, we ask local politicians: what’s the most romantic spot in Hackney?
Meg Hillier MP
Geffrye Museum expansion plans given green light by council
Redevelopment approved three years after council threw out original plans
Meg Hillier MP condemns ‘onslaught’ against housing benefit renters after Digs protest
Calls it ‘almost impossible’ to rent thanks to private landlords and benefit cap
2015 – a look back at the year that was
The Hackney Citizen revisits the biggest stories in what proved to be a rollercoaster year
Hackney MPs split over welfare bill
Diane Abbott is one of the 48 rebel MPs to vote against welfare bill, but Hackney South MP Meg Hillier abstains
How one Shoreditch firm is winning the world series of broadband
Meet the award-winning firm ushering in a new era of painless internet access
Hackney GPs ‘gobsmacked’ by Government’s defence of NHS cuts which may close 12 surgeries
Health Minister claims current system, which tends to benefit poorer areas, is “out of date”