Daubeney Primary’s outdoor classroom moves a step closer after £1,000 pledge from Mayor of London
The school is hoping to transform an underused part of its playground and now needs just £800 to get the project off the ground
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Town Hall ‘highly commended’ for commitment to 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2020
Hackney Green Party calls for further action on fossil fuel divestment and glyphosate use
Activists express alarm as number of ‘hazardous’ council-owned homes spikes 350 per cent in a year
Town Hall fails to explain sudden rise in ‘Category 1’ hazards as Liberal Democrats and Greens call for ‘action’
Sisters Uncut rips into Town Hall with ‘gross negligence’ claims as Marian Court residents left in limbo
Town Hall apologises for offering one woman a property viewing on same estate as violent ex-partner
Hackney pupils show off their pedal power for 2019’s Bike Around The Borough
Nine hundred children from 42 schools joined in the annual ‘bike bus’ earlier this month
‘Scything is the new yoga’: Annual hay harvest returns to east London
Food, music and workshops also on the bill for the seventh Community Haystacks event at Walthamstow Marshes on 20 July
Local students meet Will Young for new education project tackling homophobic bullying
Petchey Academy pupils spoke to the singer at the launch of Amazon’s LGBT+ Reading Roadshow, which is providing free books and workshops to schools with the help of Pink News and Just Like Us
Hackney’s East Asian charities win £35k grant to revamp old Bath House in De Beauvoir
The run-down building could reopen as a kitchen and hub for borough’s Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino populations – if final fundraising push is successful
Town Hall apologises to parents of disabled children over failings in timely care
Council argues that ‘more complex’ cases present choice between delays over 20 weeks or ‘low quality’ outcomes
Comic – The Playground
Artist Francisco de la Mora presents a little microcosm of Hackney’s diversity
Three stolen Stik sculptures worth £300k returned to Dalston’s Curve Garden
The works, taken in a night-time raid last November, were dropped off by a concerned art collector in June
Armadillo, Yard Theatre: ‘A thriller about trauma, grief and memory’
Mumburger writer Sarah Kosar’s latest play is ‘dark, complicated and tense’
Residents line up to praise Basque restaurant Sagardi as it sets sights on Michelin star
Council loosen licensing restrictions on ‘exceptional’ venue
Hackney’s Windrush cookbook now up for grabs in local libraries
The book, featuring recipes from two recent baking sessions led by Bake Off star Liam Charles, launched on Windrush Day last month
Borough’s health services prepare for post-summer ‘asthma spike’ in children
Homerton Hospital nurse is raising awareness about increased risks to youngsters when they go back to school in September
St Joseph’s Hospice launches its first ever charity shop
Five Sisters on Mare Street is named after the pioneering women who helped set up the care centre in 1905