News - Hackney Citizen (Page 299)

Hackney Council posts newspaper-style story online, despite claims of not competing with local press

The council has declined to rule out launching an online newspaper

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Today has been competing with local newspapers for advertising

Rashan Charles: Police officer being investigated for ‘gross misconduct’

IPCC chief says officer’s behaviour when restraining Charles, who later died in hospital, ‘may have breached police standards’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Rashan Charles: Police officer being investigated for ‘gross misconduct’

Momentum U-turns on open selection to protect ‘four left-wing councillors’ from non-Corbynite challengers

Group had earlier called open selection ‘democratic’ and the ‘best option’ for socialists

Author: Hackney Citizen

Momentum U-turns on open selection to protect ‘four left-wing councillors’ from non-Corbynite challengers

Teaching vacancies at Hackney primaries ‘above average’, the most recent data suggests

‘It is not unusual to have three vacancies across all 53 of Hackney’s primary schools’, says council spokesperson

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council offers £30k for job ‘sorting papers’ of ex-Mayor Jules Pipe

‘You will need to have a head for heights due to the tall racking!’ the Town Hall warns applicants

Author: Hackney Citizen

Reopening of the beautifully restored Town Hall

Anti-poverty charity slams Town Hall’s ‘absurd’ council tax proposals

Zacchaeus 2000 Trust says changes to relief scheme will ‘take money out of the pockets of their poorest residents’, but council says government cuts led to decision

Author: Hackney Citizen

Anti-poverty charity slams Town Hall’s ‘absurd’ council tax proposals

Town Hall misses high priority blaze threat targets three times

Guidance set by safety experts on dealing with ‘P1’ risks is that they must be fixed within a month

Author: Hackney Citizen

The council's FRA map, which links to the individual reports. Image: Hackney Council

Hackney Council’s letting agency does not exist, Town Hall admits

Priority Homes scheme billed as a social letting agency ‘because that’s how most people would understand its function’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Business rates: Town Hall launches consultation on £7m relief fund

Residents can have a say on how money is dished out to local businesses, which were hit hard by this year’s rates hike

Author: Hackney Citizen

Left to right: Meg Hillier MP, Len Maloney (JC Motors), Mayor Philip Glanville. Photograph: Hackney Council.

Fire risks at council property left unchecked for over five years

When an assessment was eventually carried out this year, it found there was no fire detection or alarm system.

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fire risks at council property left unchecked for over five years

Charity’s River Lea reedbed drive hits 1000-metre landmark

Thames 21’s volunteer project creates habitats for wildlife and helps to reduce pollution

Author: Hackney Citizen

Charity’s River Lea reedbed drive hits 1000-metre landmark

Hackney Council freesheet claims to be a ‘fortnightly newspaper’ – but legally may be neither

Hackney Today ‘appears to be in breach of the law’, says Citizen editor

Author: Adam Barnett