Hackney Council’s CEO is facing charges of contempt of court after the local authority missed a legal deadline to carry out maintenance works, despite a judge’s warning. In her role as the borough’s ...

Plans for London’s only secure children’s home are moving forward, but campaigners have doubled down on their opposition. The Pan-London Secure Children’s Home, situated on the 14-acre Thames Water ...

As part of her award-winning project, Low Carbon Chinatown, artist and designer Ling Tan aims to harness the power of ordinary citizens through her latest installation, Harvesting Climate Action. Her ...

However, if we’re going to save this life-giving world we’re squatting on, we need radical, grassroots change, and Powell and Edelstyn are surging examples of its power. This is part of a wider push ...

Now this quotation has been turned into sculpture by Zineb Sedira in the latest addition to the Line art trail that winds it way down the River Lea. Her text-based installation of Fellini’s words ...

Norfolk potatoes topped with tamarind, yoghurt, and black chickpeas (chaat) are a lovely pairing with the meaty sphere, mild and calming with fried lotus root for a crunch of excitement.

Dame Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, has joined the judging panel of a competition to design a logo for ...

Former Spice Girl Mel B and skin care brand Dove joined the campaign to have the emoji’s added by the Unicode Consortium, a US-based organisation that decides which emojis are distributed across the ...

Dalston’s independent theatre, Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH), asked Hackney Council to let it stay open until 5am on ...

Hackney council has spent £38 million since 2020 buying back houses it used to own. The purchases relate to properties the council sold under Right to Buy, a controversial legacy of the Thatcher ...

In July, Hackney Council announced its new ‘Housing Improvement Plan’ to improve its internal processes around complaint-handling, maintenance and repairs. Prior to Monday’s scrutiny meeting, the Town ...

Hackney Council left a child without education for almost a year, causing a mother “distress and worry”, an ombudsman has found.