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Hackney Greens distance themselves from Burnham effigy protest
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
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Homerton community garden wins fifth Green Flag award
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.
STIK print raises over £4,000 for the Homerton
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
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The graveyard at Hackney Wick: sunken boats left to rot
Where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee at Hackney Wick, two sunken narrow boats lie within touching distance of one another
Former Hackney councillor ‘debanked’ by HSBC after Ukraine trip
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
Council says no eviction warrant sought as it defends handling of SEND family’s case
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.
Mayor Garbett urges minister to bin single-sex rules as campaigners round on her
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"
Former Hackney mayor joins call to restore whip to Diane Abbott
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
Sadiq Khan misses affordable homes target — even after it was cut
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
Mossbourne refuses to apologise to pupils as academy trust defends record before councillors
Academy trust leaders said they would not say sorry to children the safeguarding review found were harmed
Is Vodafone down? Users report issues with broadband and mobile internet
VodafoneThree users have reported issues with the broadband provider.
Ofsted hails ‘rigorous’ curriculum as Grasmere Primary secures top rating
Grasmere Primary School, located on Albion Road and part of the LEAP Federation, earned a 'Strong Standard' rating.
Council spent £10,000 on parking charges in a year
Hackney employees clocked up more than £10,000 in parking penalties and road charges over 12 months
Council consults on Tyssen Street greening as campaigners cry foul over play area
Low Traffic Hackney backs new trees and benches at Hoxton Trust garden but disputes the council's account of what happens to the car bays
Aldi to rebrand as 'Baldi' for one day to help break Guinness World Record
Aldi will temporarily rebrand itself as 'Baldi' on Friday (July 10) in tribute to Pitbull’s headline show at BST Hyde Park.
Seven in 10 employees use their work laptop for personal things
Seven in 10 employees use their work laptop for personal things – including applying for jobs, online shopping, and booking holidays.
Family’s five-year battle over collapsing council flat: ‘It’s dangerous’
Doudou Panda says repeated repairs at his Haggerston home have failed to stop leaks that have caved in a bathroom wall and left his children too frightened to use the toilet
Ruth Ellis granted posthumous conditional pardon 61 years after hanging
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon
Ofcom fines Virgin Media £28m for stopping millions of customers from switching
The penalty comes after communications regulator Ofcom uncovered a 'widespread' and 'often deliberate' pattern of call-handling failures
John Lewis proposes major in-store change putting 200 jobs at risk
John Lewis has proposed shutting down its in-store foreign currency exchange and gift wrapping services