St Mary’s Church to host ‘community sleepout’ for homelessness campaign
Volunteers will spend a night outside on 29 June – under the billboards that have already set tongues wagging in Stoke Newington
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Hackney libraries get set for 2018’s Summer Reading Challenge
This year’s theme is ‘Mischief Makers’, inspired by the 80th anniversary of the popular Beano comics
Hackney women awarded MBEs in Queen’s birthday honours
Art gallery director Ingrid Swenson and construction industry giant Kath Moore both receive gongs
Curtain (almost) up: Work on new Hackney theatre nears completion
86-year-old Tower Theatre Company set to begin season in September
Marian Court demolition and revamp approved with fewer social rent homes
Twelve-storey council scheme green-lit by planning chiefs
Artworks by brain injury survivors to feature in new Hackney Museum show
‘The Mind’s Eye’, a selection of art from Homerton Hospital, opens next week
Town Hall moots taking government to court over freesheet Hackney Today
Judicial review ‘one option’ after direction to cut paper back to quarterly
‘Overbearing’ London Fields block approved despite neighbour’s privacy fears
Helen Mead said the scheme would mean ‘a wall of windows watching my every move’
Woman catches Lyme disease from tick bite at Clissold Park, say residents
Hackney Council says only a small percentage of ticks carry the disease but urges people to check themselves after a park outing
Lincoln Court residents launch petition against council plans to turn play space into housing
Hackney mayor calls the effort a ‘campaign against council housing during a housing crisis’
Dalston towers over Eastern Curve Garden approved despite loss of sunlight
Former Speaker calls decision ‘disappointing’ and worries about garden’s future
Towers ‘overshadowing’ Dalston Eastern Curve Garden go before planning chiefs
Eight-storey housing scheme has faced public opposition
178 urgent fire safety issues in Hackney blocks ‘outstanding’ ahead of Grenfell anniversary
Council says 94 per cent of issues in housing blocks have been addressed
Homeless men evicted from Mare Street tents by council enforcement team
Police called as men are forced out for ‘obstructing the highway’
Neighbour slams ‘horrible’ three-storey London Fields apartment block ahead of planning decision
Resident ‘disappointed’ after council officers recommend granting permission
Cleaners at Hackney Learning Trust keep jobs and terms after Carillion collapse
Staff have switched to OSC Group with the same working conditions, says council