Dancing babies and woolly trees: Next month’s Hackney Carnival set to be ‘biggest and best yet’
Yarn-bombing and baby disco added to 8 September line-up, alongside the iconic parade through the new Hackney Central location
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Another round? London Fields Brewery returns to its original home after five-year absence
Team reveals it is once again making beer in the arches where it all began back in 2011
Daubeney Fields playground transformation an ‘instant hit’ with families
Council and local community turn ‘bleak’ 1970s rec ground into a natural play space with an outdoor classroom
Charity appeals for volunteers to help blind people in Hackney use specially adapted radios
British Wireless for the Blind Fund’s devices allow people to enjoy podcasts, books, talking newspapers and more
‘Real sense of history’: Family photos donated by Hackney women on display at Sutton House
Cherelle Sappleton’s exhibition, featuring snaps gifted by the local community, offers a highly personal glimpse into the borough’s past
Council forced to cut back Hackney Today after court rejects its appeal
Hackney Mayor ‘extremely disappointed’ as Town Hall considers how to replace its controversial freesheet
Council to put up warnings about ticks after woman reports catching Lyme disease in Clissold Park
Andrea Smyth says she was bitten last month in the same dog-free zone where a jogger purportedly caught the disease in 2018
Community parklets: Locals invited to apply as council reopens trial programme
Residents can submit ideas to the Town Hall, with plans afoot to add to Hackney’s six parking bay oases
New images offer glimpse into Abney Park’s future – if bid for more funding is successful
Plans signed off recently by Hackney’s cabinet include a café and events space, and further restoration work on the chapel
2019: A Space odyssey
Hackney stalwart Space Studios’ Mare Street gallery is relocating to Ilford in the autumn. The charity’s chief exec Anna Harding talks about the move, and picks out her personal highlights from the past 16 years
The Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time for the untidy to have a go’
Kate Poland on a budding union of gardens, the joys of shinrin-yoku, and how you can help nature while getting drunk
Campaigners to hold Marian Court ‘protest party’ over threats of intentional homelessness
Thursday evening’s protest planned as family event with ‘speeches, food and music’ as campaigners say safe housing ‘a right, not a privilege’
Campaigners and council to scrutinise plans for Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Revised proposals to be studied ‘forensically’ as Hackney Mayor keeps up pressure on affordability
Popular Dalston vintage shop wins right to serve ‘organic wines and small-batch beers’
Councillors say decision ‘not made lightly’ as licence awarded to local Bargain Hunt expert
Community mourns the death of homeless man in Stoke Newington bus stop
Hackney Mayor announces review into tragedy as crowdfunder set up for memorial
Hackney rated bottom in England for ‘liveability’ as activists call for change
Liberal Democrats argue for more borrowing to build housing as borough posts low scores in combined index of ‘opportunity, affordability and desirability’