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Charity questions Town Hall decision to take support services for carers inhouse

City and Hackney Carers Centre say insourcing will ‘add to the workload of already hard pressed social workers’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney Town Hall

GP surgery in Clapton to close permanently – leaving top medics ‘disappointed’

Patients at Sorsby Medical Practice to be transferred to other GPs at end of June

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

GP surgery in Clapton to close permanently – leaving top medics ‘disappointed’

Town Hall bosses grilled over inadequate rating for supported living services

‘It was just not monitored in a regular enough way to keep up-to-date with best practice’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Town Hall bosses grilled over inadequate rating for supported living services

Length of planned strike by bus drivers for disabled children increases

Workers left unimpressed by council reminders of existing employment benefits

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Length of planned strike by bus drivers for disabled children increases

Town Hall sanctions rent caps in Hackney Wick to ‘protect its creative heart’

New developments will be forced to re-provide existing workspace at less than half the market rate

Author: Hackney Citizen

Town Hall sanctions rent caps in Hackney Wick to ‘protect its creative heart’

Women’s rehab centre set up by Amy Winehouse’s family wins national award

Amy’s Place, an east London housing project for young women recovering from addiction, is recognised by Centre for Social Justice

Author: Hackney Citizen

Women’s rehab centre set up by Amy Winehouse’s family wins national award

‘My doorstep was cordoned off for smoking’: Arts venue opening fills neighbours with ‘dread’

Alcohol licence for Overlock Arts facing stiff opposition from locals

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

‘My doorstep was cordoned off for smoking’: Arts venue opening fills neighbours with ‘dread’

Historic Newington Green Meeting House shuts for a year as work begins on £1.8m revamp

The National Lottery is funding a new visitor centre and disabled access – as New Unity church moves out temporarily

Author: Hackney Citizen

Historic Newington Green Meeting House shuts for a year as work begins on £1.8m revamp

Heart-stopping CCTV shows man narrowly avoid a collapsing roof in Stoke Newington

Shocking near miss happened on the busy high street on Sunday as gale-force winds hit the UK

Author: Hackney Citizen

Heart-stopping CCTV shows man narrowly avoid a collapsing roof in Stoke Newington

Shush, this is a building site!: Recording studio ‘reassured’ by promise of quiet construction tests

Historic Strongroom Studios secure condition that neighbouring development won’t go ahead without noise controls

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Shush, this is a building site!: Recording studio ‘reassured’ by promise of quiet construction tests

Hackney’s female politicians mark International Women’s Day

‘We’re blazing a trail’, says borough’s newest councillor Penny Wrout

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney’s female politicians mark International Women’s Day

Jennette Arnold calls for more blue plaques for women – as Hackney charity welcomes nod for activist Claudia Jones

Hackney’s London Assembly representative says current disparity between men and women ‘nothing to celebrate’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Jennette Arnold.