Rabbi Gratt’s comments are echoed by Levi Schapiro of the Hackney-based Jewish Community Council (JCC). “I think it’s the ...

Last Friday, the Citizen sat down with Mayor Caroline Woodley following the Labour-run council approving its budget for the coming year. When we last met, the mayor, who was elected in November 2023, ...

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 ...

Councillors lay out scope of investigation into why borough has second-highest number of exclusions in inner London ...

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 ...

Hackney councillors have hit out at critics demanding divestment from Israeli arms companies, accusing them of “jumping on the bandwagon”. Ahead of last night’s (Thursday 20) pensions committee ...