News - Hackney Citizen (Page 10)

Tenant spent a year in flat rated ‘10 out of 10’ for rats - Peabody accused of failing her

A mental health nurse in key worker accommodation says the housing association passed her case between pest controllers, plumbers, builders and its own maintenance teams across more than 50 appointments — while rat urine ran through the seams of her wet-room floor

Author: Niall Holden

Photograph of damage caused by Rat infestation Gore Road

Refugee Week 2026: Mayor Garbett rebukes Labour's 'inflammatory rhetoric' on migration

Hackney's new Green mayor sets out her stall against the national government's tightening immigration regime and pledges to build on the borough's three-year Sanctuary designation

Author: James Barnes

Fellows Court residents urge Mayor Garbett to act over 'atrocious' conditions in 'dehumanising' estate block

Frustrated social housing residents call on the new Mayor to address longstanding leaks, filth, and disrepairs

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fellows Court residents urge Mayor Garbett to act over 'atrocious' conditions in 'dehumanising' estate block

Former Hackney councillor Patrick Vernon knighted for services to racial equality

The Windrush Day campaigner, who served as a Labour councillor in the borough and now chairs Hackney Thinking Spaces, has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours after three decades of work on race, health and social justice

Author: Hackney Citizen

Green councillor's portrait pulled from Hackney website after keffiyeh complaint

Mayor Zoë Garbett says the decision was taken by officers, not by elected members, and that she has "raised concerns" over its removal

Author: Patrick Cardwell

Artists open their doors for return of E8 Art and Craft Trail

The free weekend trail, now in its fifth year, sees Dalston artists and makers show work in homes, studios and venues across the neighbourhood on 20–21 June

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stoke Newington community rallies to save Old Church with all-day midsummer festival

Residents have raised three-quarters of a £30,000 repair fund and hope a 12-hour programme of music, poetry and comedy on 14 June will close the gap

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stoke Newington community rallies to save Old Church with all-day midsummer festival

Labour critics accuse Hackney's Green mayor of 'vibe' politics and blast Garbett’s 'waffle' on targets

Councillor Ben Lucas leads chorus of Labour critics warning Zoë Garbett that 'targets exist for a reason', after the mayor pledged to measure success by 'what people feel and experience'

Author: Niall Holden