Metropolitan police

Man charged with arson after fires started in London Fields

Police and fire crews were called to the park shortly after 5am on Saturday

Author: Hackney Citizen

Boy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes

Police divers recovered the child after a six-hour search on the first day of a heat-health alert that warned of a rising risk of drowning

Author: Hackney Citizen

Boy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes

What’s next after the Greens’ historic takeover of Hackney?

Hackney's new mayor Zoë Garbett pledged to 'change the system' as she claimed victory at the local elections. What has she promised to do, and how will she try to achieve her goals?

Author: Hackney Citizen

Photograph of Hackney's new mayor, the Green party's Zoë Garbett

Man arrested after shouting 'shame Hitler didn’t kill you’ on 254 bus

Threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road

Author: Hackney Citizen

Photograph of a man being arrested over a suspected antisemitic hate crime

Green mayoral candidate accused of ‘blocking’ letter praising police for Golders Green response to knife attacks

Cllr Zoë Garbett raised objections to a proposed missive from the London Assembly’s police and crime committee

Author: Hackney Citizen

Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

'The destruction of our livelihoods' - Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as 'evictions' loom

Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies

Author: James Barnes

Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

Zoë Garbett urges Met to ‘immediately stop’ use of ‘invasive’ facial recognition tools

The London Assembly Member and Hackney councillor has published a report outlining concerns over the use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology by the Met

Author: Sidney Khan

Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

Javon Riley given minimum term of 34 years for 'meticulously organising' attack at Evin restaurant last year

Author: Hackney Citizen

Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers - but others brand it 'most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe'

Surveys revealed that 93 per cent of Londoners supported the presence of Safer Schools Officers in school buildings

Author: Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

Man charged with arson after fires started in London Fields

Boy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes

What’s next after the Greens’ historic takeover of Hackney?

Man arrested after shouting 'shame Hitler didn’t kill you’ on 254 bus

Green mayoral candidate accused of ‘blocking’ letter praising police for Golders Green response to knife attacks

'The destruction of our livelihoods' - Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as 'evictions' loom

Zoë Garbett urges Met to ‘immediately stop’ use of ‘invasive’ facial recognition tools

Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers - but others brand it 'most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe'

Man guilty over Dalston shooting that left nine-year-old girl with bullet lodged in brain

'Treating us all as suspects' - Doubts over success of Met Police’s Live Facial Recognition technology

Inside a record store’s fight for survival in Hackney