Rate up 45p to £10.20 an hour as borough celebrates start of Living Wage Week 2017
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
As ‘all up to date’ claim made post-Grenfell falls apart with a welcome apology, we call for the fire safety information blockage to be cleared
Claims that all fire risk assessments were ‘up-to-date’ and that priority work has been done were false
Town Hall is asking for residents’ views on plans to cut council tax relief
Council says it will provide a new update when it is confident that the work will be completed to its satisfaction
Harvested from the 1930s to the present day, Spitalfields Life’s gorgeous collection of East End paintings is more knees-up than misery-fest
Local group Daubeney Fields Forever calls for a rethink, but Town Hall says it is ‘doing all it can to build the homes Hackney needs’
In hiding from Halloween, our resident historian Gillian Riley turns her imagination to Bonfire Night and the transgressive thrills and benefits of so-called ‘Papist’ garlic
Council invites residents to ‘help shape the future of the borough’
Mayor’s letter warns benefit changes could increase poverty and debt
