Hackney’s opposition groups have accused the council of presiding over “managed decline” and called for “swingeing” cuts to be reversed as the Town Hall agreed its budget for the coming year. In ...

Hackney’s mayor has said the council has reduced its £67m budget gap with help from central government, amid accusations of hypocrisy over continued cuts to services. At the Town Hall’s annual budget ...

Newly signed-off plans for housing and workspace in Hackney Wick have earned enthusiastic local backing – a rare feat hailed by a community group as a “signal” to developers everywhere. The ...

The Town Hall has announced a review into school behaviour policies, as councillors and officials look to rein in the number of exclusions and suspensions in the borough. Last night (25 February), the ...

Americans have given us many good things: processed cheese, the songs of Elvis Presley, and cowboy hats. A strainingly serious musical set entirely in the ladies’ toilets certainly isn’t one of them.

When we remember our youth, it often comes to us in snapshots – places we went, people we knew. All the Young Queers, the latest book by local author Nathan Evans, is a series of nine short stories in ...