Council Tax hike of almost five per cent included in budget proposals
Average Hackney property facing a near £50 a year rise as mayor takes aims at continuing austerity
News
Rolling Stock handed three-month ban as police blame late opening for stabbing death
Councillor wishes she had imposed more stringent search policy ‘because it might have averted what happened’
Lubomyr Melnyk, EartH, review: ‘A master of his discipline’
The unconventional pianist put on a ‘bewitching’ show to celebrate his 70th birthday
The Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
Titbits – Soporific stories and disappearing Tories
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Leader – Glass houses
The council can learn from the police’s admission that it’s training in people skills doesn’t fit the bill
Town Hall reveals ‘tight action plan’ in response to damning report on care services
Community health director expresses ‘deep regret that more watchful eye was not kept’
Conservative councillor refuses Town Hall food over ‘stolen parking money’
Housing director labels claims ‘absurd’ and ‘based on a false premise’
Ms Paolini’s Phantasmagoria Cabaret returns to Hackney
The Italian performer is back at Hoxton Hall next month with an evening of mime, dance, music and comedy
Council surprise as Hackney police to receive ‘conflict resolution’ training – for the first time
Police officers to be trained in ‘how to prevent things escalating out of control’ in Hackney and Tower Hamlets pilot
JSS Bach, Martin Goodman, book review: ‘Searing pain endures for generations’
In a book twenty years in the making, the local author ‘treads delicately around identity, values and life purpose’
Shoreditch Art Wall: Businessman set to sue developers over alleged ‘broken agreement’
Peter Mackeonis launches campaign to fund legal bid after another company was put in charge of the wall – but developer says it has done everything ‘by the book’
Talking rubbish: Council loses track of fly-tipping rates for a whole year
Hackney Lib Dems accuse the Town Hall of not taking the problem seriously
Borough’s rough sleeping rise an ‘outrage’, says housing needs chief
Government called upon to “use its powers to make a difference” as rates rise Londonwide by 13 per cent
Energy boss plans ‘roadshow’ to sign up boroughs for joint renewables drive
Calls made to use London councils’ collective purchasing power to ‘move markets’
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