Archive for 2021
Brazilian photographer and activist Claudia Andujar set for major Barbican retrospective
Summer show will focus on Andujar’s work with Brazil’s Yanomami people, as curator says arts audiences must ‘take on ethical responsibility’
Read MoreLocal health watchdog to form ‘People’s Plan’ for St Leonard’s Hospital
Healthwatch Hackney wants residents and staff involved in site’s future, which has been up in the air since the 1980s
Read MoreWomen’s Equality Party to skip Hackney by-elections as it goes all-out for first City Hall seat
Hackney resident and former parliamentary candidate Harini Iyengar on ballot for London Assembly vote in May
Read MoreMan arrested following ‘disgusting attack’ on pregnant woman in Stamford Hill
Suspect in his late 50s taken into custody after 20-year-old woman was assaulted last week on Manor Road
Read More‘My door is open’: New transport boss announces ‘reset’ on LTNs as consultation extended
Cllr Mete Coban signals change in approach as he insists ‘no-one has made a fixed decision’ on schemes
Read MoreLeaways School strike continues amid allegations of intimidation from trade union
Managers deny using ‘unjust disciplinary measures’ as both sides insist they want matter resolved
Read MoreHackney community group drafted in by City Hall to help fleeing Hongkongers
Estimates suggest 300,000 could arrive in Britain in the coming years to escape China’s crackdown on free speech
Read MoreMayor’s Civic Awards return from year’s break with call for nominations
Event expanded to make up for cancellation of 2020 awards
Read MoreCyber attack: Hundreds of residents still facing disruption with benefits payments
Town Hall’s IT boss confirms incorrect payments continue to be made but says recovery work is ‘moving forward’
Read MoreHackney drag queen finishes in the top three on Rupaul’s Drag Race UK
Bimini Bon Boulash became a fan favourite in the popular TV contest
Read MorePoetry: Covetous Covid’s Crimes by Zac Eisner
The 11-year-old Hackney resident, who has been home-schooled for a year because his mum is shielding, shares a piece to ‘raise your spirits’
Read MoreJennette Arnold urges government to act on low vaccine uptake in Hackney
London Assembly Member for north-east London fears borough could be left ‘vulnerable to future rise in infections’
Read MoreCuts to embattled children’s services could have ‘serious impact’, union warns council
Explosive letter from Unison relays claims from staff about management failures inside a department that is still in Ofsted’s crosshairs
Read MoreLondon Mayor candidates to debate environment issues that matter to you
Free online event on 12 April to be led by TV presenter Julia Bradbury
Read More‘World-first’ comic book about Mary Wollstonecraft’s life to be given out to primary schools
Book to be accompanied by six-week lesson plan, thanks to project involving Newington Green Meeting House
Read MoreHackney Mayor calls for wide-scale policing review as council takes stand on violence against women
Town Hall to sign up to White Ribbon campaign, with staff pledging to ‘never commit, excuse or remain silent about male violence against women’
Read MoreCampaigners call for ‘high ambition’ as Town Hall announces review of fossil fuel investments
Divest Hackney urges council to ‘go further than it has before’
Read MorePhotographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition
Autograph gallery repurposes electronic billboard on Old Street for illuminating #HackneyIsHome project
Read MoreThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Southwark Playhouse, stage review: ‘A pleasant if not particularly original experience’
Despite leaning on a few tired tropes, this reimagining of a popular German fairytale offers ‘old theatre magic aplenty’
Read MoreHundreds defy police ban to pay respects to Sarah Everard at London Fields
‘We will not allow the state to tell us when and how we can gather to grieve and protest’, says Women’s Strike
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