THE RISE THIS YEAR of council tax in Hackney has been blamed partly on government cuts. Of course, a Labour borough would criticise the austerity
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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A UK premiere in Hackney: how music hath power to soothe the savaged brain
As Dalston hosts the UK premiere of the film Lady Lovely Lute, producer-director Laura Stratford, above, says she hopes the documentary will help to
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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Hip-hop raised up this Dalston street art — a few minutes with a sledgehammer smashed it down
LIKE A GOLDEN FLARE these hip-hop walls lit up a scrappy corner of Dalston but now art has fallen victim to philistinism. The portraits,
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Hackney out of tune as it refuses family request to mark music-hall ancestor’s grave in Abney Park
HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS DENIED the family of a music-hall comedian the right to erect a simple wooden cross on his grave in Abney Park Cemetery
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The terrorist in the town hall: he’s in jail now but worked for Hackney council for many years
* Correction 240818: Hackney council says that the plane hoaxer featured in an update to this story did not work in any of its
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What bollards! Street artist has fun with the balls keeping cars off a path in Hackney
THESE ATTRACTIVE VARIATIONS on the car-deterring bollard have been given witty makeovers by a street artist… and Hackney council would like to know their
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The Waste Market is dead, long live Kingsland: new market answers Hackney council’s critics
WITH LITTLE FANFARE a new market opened in Hackney today Saturday 28 July 2018 and traders and the public took to it. Kingsland Market
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If you go down to the wood today, beware of Haggerston’s frolicking families of rats
RATS HAVE COLONISED a corner of a popular Hackney leisure space. The wood created by the council on the southeastern edge of Haggerston Park
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