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Cladding at four Hackney blocks to be replaced as tests reveal it fails current fire safety standards

Council says cladding is not the same as that found on Grenfell Tower and there are ‘no immediate fire safety concerns’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Town Hall

Titbits – Lying little rags and political handbags

Plus ça change – it’s the monthly column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

Titbits bird

Leader – Road to ruin

The current approach to public consultations could lead to good schemes falling by the wayside

Author: Hackney Citizen

HC Crest

Council tackles 3,000 urgent fire safety issues discovered post-Grenfell

Mayor says council is ‘working flat out’ to act on FRAs as front doors are checked on estates

Author: Adam Barnett

Council tackles 3,000 urgent fire safety issues discovered post-Grenfell

Holocaust Memorial Day: Powerful testimony as Hackney remembers ‘defining event in human history’

Survivor Manfred Goldberg delivers harrowing personal account at Town Hall ceremony

Author: Hackney Citizen

Holocaust Memorial Day: Powerful testimony as Hackney remembers ‘defining event in human history’

Hackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block

Queensbridge Road property is first in borough to get sprinklers since the Grenfell fire – due to the high average age of residents

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block

Hackney Council reaffirms efforts to make borough ‘dementia-friendly’ at Town Hall meeting

Cllr Yvonne Maxwell’s motion was welcomed by the Alzheimers’ Society

Author: Hackney Citizen

New councillor: Labour's Yvonne Maxwell

Owner of vandalised Churchill-themed café in Hackney hits back at critics

Blighty UK’s Chris Evans was attacked in the media after the Finsbury Park eatery was targeted by protesters

Author: Hackney Citizen

Owner of vandalised Churchill-themed café in Hackney hits back at critics

Community group running Hackney’s only solar-powered public toilet ‘outraged’ as council pulls plug

Town Hall will not renew Clapton Improvement Society’s lease for Brooksby’s Walk loos due to concerns over income and health and safety

Author: Hackney Citizen

Community group running Hackney’s only solar-powered public toilet ‘outraged’ as council pulls plug

School cleaners call off Hackney strike

Union lifts threat following compromise over pay and contracts

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Town Hall

London Fields cinema apologises for Kevin Spacey ‘oversight’

Institute of Light used an old poster for ‘All the Money in the World’ featuring the disgraced star

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Fields cinema apologises for Kevin Spacey ‘oversight’

Hackney Council stands by traffic plans despite fears for children’s health

William Patten parents’ group says Walford Road proposals could increase asthma risk

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council stands by traffic plans despite fears for children’s health