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Firefighters tackle Stoke Newington flat blaze
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters attended the scene
King’s coronation: Hackney to play host to 18 Big Lunch events and eight street parties
The council has handed out more than 30 community grants in total
‘Post-Brexit rules putting Europeans off the UK,’ warns Mayor of London
Sadiq Khan urges government to introduce new visa for visiting schoolchildren
Edmonton incinerator cost ‘spiralling out of control’, says campaign group
Stop the Edmonton Incinerator Now Coalition urges North London Waste Authority to ‘reformulate its business case’ for the controversial facility
Whittington Hospital urges health watchdog to reconsider ‘requires improvement’ rating for its maternity service
The maternity unit was rated ‘good’ in four out of five areas, so bosses have asked for clarification
Food poverty causing ‘growing divide between haves and have-nots’ in Hackney, warns charity boss
Nicolette Nixon, who runs H.O.P.E. at Morningside, says staff are having to ‘make judgment calls’ over who receives support
Child Q: Laws allowing child strip-searches need ‘radical rethink’, says safeguarding expert
Jim Gamble tells councillors examining the response to the scandal that there is ‘no justification’ for the tactic
Hackney Council’s chief executive given extended leave to deal with ‘family matters’
‘Council business continues as usual,’ says Town Hall spokesman
‘Farce’: Motorcyclists and opposition councillors blast decision to press ahead with new parking charges
Town Hall scrutiny panel backs cabinet’s approval of scheme after it was called into question
Hackney brewery joins forces with refugee women to condemn government’s illegal migration bill
Five Points and Women for Refugee Women release craft beer to inspire opposition to Whitehall’s plans
‘The government is failing’: Hackney’s Green councillors join four-day climate action in Westminster
Cllrs Alastair Binnie-Lubbock and Zoë Garbett took part in demonstration outside the Department for Transport
Hackney mortuary that played a part in Operation Mincemeat set for capacity boost
Town Hall likely to sign off £800k investment in venue at heart of notorious wartime deception
Letter: ‘Diane Abbott was wrong’
But the Conservative Party is in no position to take the moral high ground, says Sasha Simic
Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP over ‘deeply offensive’ letter about racism
Abbott apologises for comments suggesting Jewish, Irish and Traveller people have not suffered racism ‘all their lives’
‘This can’t go on’: Homerton residents call for safer crossings on road where two children were hit by a car
Two young children suffered minor injuries on Kenworthy Road last month, but locals said it was an ‘accident waiting to happen’