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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...