Posts by Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter
Biggest employers in City and Hackney asked to offer Covid vaccines at the office
Night clubs, pubs and restaurants are also being approached as health bosses try to improve uptake
Read More‘Young people are getting vaccinated in secret to avoid being seen as sell-outs’, health bosses warned
Hackney CVS chief says uptake among youngsters could be improved if they are able to get the jab ‘covertly’
Read MorePolice raise concerns over Shoreditch chicken restaurant’s bid to open later following April fight
Chicken Cottage on City Road applies to open until 5am from Thursday to Sunday
Read More‘Sick of picking drunks off my steps’: Residents of Broadway Market strike out at ‘escalating’ anti-social behaviour
Residents say alcohol sales have ‘made life a misery’ as supermarket asks for booze licence
Read MoreTown Hall block-books hotel rooms for people who cannot self-isolate at home
Move follows £81k grant from government for pilot scheme designed to reduce spread of Covid
Read More‘It’s not a party’: Shoreditch work space applies to serve booze at networking events
Rise on Luke Street tells licensing committee that its clients will ‘network and get home’
Read MoreStoke Newington cafe runs up against neighbours in bid for alcohol licence
Atlas Grinds moves to assuage concerns over disturbances with message of community support
Read MorePatient has wrong side of thyroid removed during surgery at Homerton Hospital
Error is one of a number of serious incidents reported by the hospital in its latest quality review
Read More‘Bombarded by licences’: Broadway Market residents hit out at cafe’s booze bid
Locals say they already have to put up with anti-social behaviour and noise from idling minicabs
Read MoreCoronavirus: Homerton staff go ‘extra mile’ to stay with dying patients in their final moments
Staff stayed with dying covid patients at the Homerton Hospital in Hackney when the pandemic meant visitors were not able to be with them at their last moments, a senior doctor said. Dr Isabella Harrod said a review of the 379 people who died due to covid at the hospital between April 2020 and March 2021 showed very clearly…
Read MoreChildren’s designs for Shoreditch Park play centre given thumbs-up by planners
Ideas for slides and a rooftop space get go-ahead as part of huge £350k redesign
Read MoreNew lease of life for Grade I-listed former church in Shoreditch
Saint Michael and All Angels Church is one of only six buildings in Hackney with the top heritage status
Read MoreNew traffic measures to be introduced around school at former police station in central Hackney
Council to bring in two School Streets outside the Olive School, which is set to welcome all 630 pupils this autumn
Read MoreHomerton medics awarded Freedom of the Borough for going ‘above and beyond’ during pandemic
Hospital chairman Sir John Gieve jokingly says he hopes the accolade ‘brings the freedom to drive sheep’
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