Since October 7, 2023, the PSC, the Greens and other activist groups have put sustained pressure on the previous Labour administration in Hackney to end the twinning and divest the council’s pension ...

Hackney’s London Fields is widely known for its lido but a smaller children’s pool has long been popular with local families in need of a free playing space. First opened in 1978, the paddling pool ...

Deputy mayor Jules Pipe gives speech on the Draft London Plan. Photograph: Kumail Jaffer / LDRS. London will aim far lower than the Government’s housing targets for the capital ...

The row is the latest chapter in a saga stretching back more than a decade. The 1930s-era toilets stood empty for close to two decades before the Clapton Improvement Society cleaned up and reopened ...

Hackney residents are campaigning to get their local Post Office reopened after its shock closure with a petition aimed partly at the landlord. London Fields Post Office on Broadway Market was ...

Photograph: Hackney Council. Plans to let developers cut the proportion of affordable homes in new Hackney schemes hav ...

Passers-by walking along the canalside at Hackney Wick, where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee Navigation, can spy at least two sunken boats within touching distance of each other. One is ...

Hackney’s Green party has defended its frontline politicians after they were accused of taking part in a “horrifying” protest where demonstrators repeatedly stabbed an effigy of Andy Burnham with ...

A former Queensbridge councillor who twice stood for mayor of Hackney has had his bank account closed after a visit to Ukraine, and is warning others who travel there in support of the country that ...

A 24-year-old man remains in a critical condition in hospital following an assault near Well Street Common, with police appealing for witnesses. Officers were called to Victoria Park Road at 1.12am on ...

A rare signed set of the artist’s prints has sold at Bonhams for £4,096 including premium, with every penny bound (see below) for the NHS trust that runs the hospital on Homerton Row. The lot was ...