Bosses at Hackney Foodbank say demand for their services is 300 per cent higher than it was in 2019. New figures by Trussell released today (Wednesday, 11 March) found London food banks provided the ...

Hackney residents have called for their entire council block to be evacuated after being hit by both flooding and a fire in a fortnight. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) rushed to Fellows Court in South ...

Londoners face a unique overheating risk in their own homes due to climate change impacting a densely built environment and an outdated planning and design system, the London Assembly has heard.

Hackney Council has stressed its social care is improving in the borough after a watchdog slammed the authority over assessment delays. Last week (2 March) the Health in Hackney Scrutiny Commission ...

Henry Colthurst, who was appointed to the board of trustees in 2014, resigned on 2 March, according to documents on Companies House. It follows the publication in December last year of a hard-hitting ...

A Hackney family facing eviction for subletting a council flat from the named tenant have been given a reprieve after a court suspended the local authority’s warrant to kick them out.

A Hackney academy trust spent £400,000 of public money on legal costs in response to a safeguarding review that eventually backed up pupils’ claims of a ‘punishment no matter what’ regime. The ...

The highly-anticipated Gorton and Denton by-election saw the Green party emerge victorious despite being branded by Labour as “extreme and dangerous”. For some, the result has called into question the ...

On Tuesday, 3 March, the local authority launched its public consultation on the policy, which flags 15 potential sites for redevelopment. According to the council, the Future Shoreditch Area Action ...

Hackney Council will spend over £200million fixing and maintaining the homes it owns this coming financial year alongside £13.6m to fix up the borough’s streets. The council agreed its budget on ...

Labour has condemned plans by the Green Party to decriminalise all drugs, but is the stance as radical as it appears?

“As part of a new six-month trial, operator-initiated facial recognition technology will be used during a limited number of police stops, so that officers can carry out identity checks on location ...