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Town Hall launches search for 100 inspirational Hackney women to mark suffrage centenary

Nominations are open to find and showcase ‘local heroes’ driving change in the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

Town Hall launches search for 100 inspirational Hackney women to mark suffrage centenary

Safety expert raises concerns over imminent cladding work in Hackney

Town Hall revealed this month that cladding at four blocks is to be replaced

Author: Hackney Citizen

Safety expert raises concerns over imminent cladding work in Hackney

Hackney set to receive £317k from Sadiq Khan to improve streets

The extra funding, which forms part of Transport for London’s budget for the coming year, will go towards sprucing up neighbourhoods

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cash injection: London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Residents urge Hackney Council to reject three-storey block of flats in London Fields West Side

TRA slams ‘unacceptable’ loss of light and privacy as council sends out consultation letters

Author: Hackney Citizen

Residents urge Hackney Council to reject three-storey block of flats in London Fields West Side

Village Underground gets £1.9m cash boost for Hackney Arts Centre project

Plans to turn the derelict Savoy cinema into a culture venue are taking shape

Author: Hackney Citizen

Easy as ABC: the venue as it looked in 1963 (left) and how it looks now (right).

Closure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End

Doctors say the five patients’ move to Thames House Ward will improve ‘quality of care’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Closure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End

Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March

Author: Andrew Barnes

Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Hackney to vote on anti-semitism definition opposed by anti-Israel campaigners

IHRA definition adopted by 125 local authorities has seen protests in other boroughs

Author: Adam Barnett

Hackney Town Hall

Lunar New Year: Hackney’s East Asian communities to unite for Year of the Dog celebration

Members of Hackney’s Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese populations are working together on a day of performance, collaboration and guest speakers – including Mayor Glanville

Author: Andrew Barnes

Far East London: the An Viet House in Dalston is set to welcome Filipinos and Chinese locals too. Photograph: HCCS

NHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital

Trust says five-year sum is lowest for any London hospital with a maternity unit

Author: Hackney Citizen

NHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital

Success for Northwold Estate residents as Guinness Partnership scraps demolition plans

The landlord has proposed new plans to ‘infill’ the estate with 100 new homes

Author: Hackney Citizen

Success: Guinness' plans have changed, and now only directly affect two existing homes on the estate. Photograph: Twitter

Hackney crime chief says cuts to blame for Tower Hamlets police merger

Cllr Selman said she would work to ‘minimise the impact’ on residents

Author: Adam Barnett

Caroline Selman