News - Hackney Citizen (Page 330)

Hackney’s economy ‘at risk of stagnation’ over rates hike, council warns

Town Hall urges government to delay ‘devastating’ increase in business rates amid Brexit fears

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Picturehouse staff to don Harry Potter costumes in latest strike over London Living Wage

Cinema workers to ramp up pressure on Picturehouse to pay staff a minimum of £9.75 an hour with third walk out in a month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Picturehouse staff to don Harry Potter costumes in latest strike over London Living Wage

Haggerston Park campaigners condemn decision to approve temporary school

Alternative vision for BMX track and nature reserve disregarded as council waves through temporary school plans

Author: Hackney Citizen

The disputed depot area of Haggerston Park. Photograph: Josh Loeb

Dalston resident among those fighting bid to start Brexit without vote of MPs

Tahmid Chowdhury, aged just 22, was an interested party in ‘R v The Secretary of State for Exiting the EU’ and plans to attend at least two days of the appeal

Author: Hackney Citizen

Chowdhury outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Could a law career beckon? Photograph: Tahmid Chowdhury/Twitter

Charity launches project to prevent sexual abuse of boys in Hackney

Barnados is looking to improve the safeguarding of vulnerable boys and young men in the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

Rich Faulding from Stop It Before It Starts

Nazi swastikas painted on vans outside Jewish school in Stamford Hill

Community safety chief acknowledges need for reassurance following spate of incidents, but councillor cautions against giving crimes too much publicity

Author: Hackney Citizen

Swastikas were discovered painted on vans on Monday morning. Photograph: Shomrim

London Fields residents welcome decision to shelve homes plan

London Fields West LLP last month submitted a planning application – since withdrawn to erect a four-and-a-half storey building containing three flats

Author: Hackney Citizen

Warning of ‘Croydonisation’ of Hackney Central under council’s ‘masterplan’ vision

Champions of historic buildings say council’s vision for future of area could strip away protections for St Augustine’s Tower and the surrounding ‘oasis’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Pentonville Prison escapee James Anthony Whitlock arrested in Hackney

Fugitive arrested at address in Shepherds Lane, Homerton, yesterday afternoon after escaping from jail earlier this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

James Anthony Whitlock. Photograph: Metropolitan Police

Hackney Walk: Residents demand action over ‘horrendous alarms’ and ‘endless pop-up parties’

Much-vaunted fashion hub accused of ‘breaking promises about noise and light pollution’ as council ‘drags its feet’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mehetabel Road residents at the Chesham Arms pub, where they met to discuss the problems

Campaigners demand ‘mini Holland’ in Hackney after Walthamstow success

Council accused of ‘wasting an opportunity’ to trial a similar traffic reduction scheme in London Fields

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mysteries unearthed in Shoreditch excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre

‘Unusual passageway’ discovered under stage where first actors to play Romeo and Juliet trod the boards

Author: Hackney Citizen

Archeologists excavating the site of The Curtain Theatre