A song written in 1963 has finally been recorded and released – 63 years after its songwriter first put pen to paper.

Crippling inflation, looming international conflict and a rise in fascism – so glad we left these things in the 1930s *stifles a sob*. Staging the Great Depression’s favourite playwright feels a bit ...

Rejoice, burghers of the borough! Hackney’s Green mayor Zoë Garbett has unveiled “Hackney is Yours”, a campaign to “put residents’ voices at the heart of local decision making” — a heart which, ...

At the latest hearing, His Honour Judge Roberts declined a request from Carter-McDonald’s counsel to remove her name from the injunction. He told the hearing that he had found the way the case had ...

Tenants on the Woodberry Down estate face having to move home twice after the Green-run council voted down a Labour bid to stop so-called double decanting. The motion, proposed by Woodberry Down ward ...

A man on a hydraulic platform has just done 170 metres and 12 downpipes in a day for £1,500 — a breakthrough the council is so thrilled with it has issued a press release, a photo, a video and a quote ...

But after supporters from the London Renters Union and the Save Ridley Road campaign physically blocked the unit’s shutters from falling, traders have upheld a “peaceful occupation” of the building, ...

The Met warned that raising the carriageway leaves “no detectable kerb for the visually impaired”. The council’s answer: a kerb six millimetres high. And the equality impact assessment rates the ...

The council says the responses will feed into a series of plans at the earliest stage of their development. Among them are a new borough plan, which will set out a vision for Hackney by 2040, and an ...

Eight traffic orders advertised by the council affect 81 locations across the borough. Hover or tap a marker for the details. The full list is below. Solid marker: the order has been made and takes ...

The rise runs against the trend across the city. Hackney recorded 33 permanent exclusions in 2022/23, the last full school year before London’s Inclusion Charter launched in February 2024. That ...