City Hall pitches for 558,000 new homes by 2037 — well short of the 850,000 set by ministers — as deputy mayor Jules Pipe insists lower figure is the only 'deliverable' number
Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed — but the party insists they witnessed no violence
A community garden run by a Homerton mental-health charity has been awarded a Green Flag for the fifth year running, as the organisation behind the national scheme warns that access to safe, well-kept parks is increasingly a matter of postcode.
The Hackney artist’s signed Holding Hands set sold at Bonhams, with the full proceeds going to the hospital where, as he put it, much of Hackney was born
Andrew Boff, once a Queensbridge councillor and now chair of the London Assembly, says First Direct closed his account of 30 years over a £36 card payment in Kyiv
Hackney Council has said it has not applied for a warrant to remove a family with an autistic child from a home they have occupied for nearly 20 years, disputing several accounts of a case the borough's Green Mayor backed before taking office.
Zoë Garbett tells the government to reject new EHRC guidance requiring single-sex spaces to follow biological sex, warning it puts trans people at risk — but the group Hackney Sex Realists says she is sacrificing women "on the altar of an ideology"
More than 30 party members write to Andy Burnham on the eve of his likely premiership, arguing that the year-long suspension may have cost Labour votes in May's elections
Only a tenth of affordable homes completed since 2015 were social rent, as the London mayor misses his downgraded delivery target by thousands of homes
