A yoga and dance studio in Hackney is under “threat of displacement” after being told to pay tens of thousands of pounds to renew its lease under Haggerston’s railway arches. Tripspace, which runs ...

Hackney Council has refused a Shoreditch nightclub mogul’s request to open a new venue, amid fears it would lead to a spike in crime and disorder. Entrepreneur Shmail Khan had applied to set up a new ...

A Hackney primary school has officially twinned with a school in Uganda as part of an international project to protect bees. The agreement is the first of its kind for the UK and will see Kingsmead ...

“The play is memory,” states narrator Tom Wingfield, challengingly to the audience in the first five minutes. In his case, the fractured recollections of a life-changing night in the 1930s. In the ...

Hackney Council expects to spend nearly £1m more on agency workers before the end of the financial year, it has been revealed. The borough’s overall financial report (OFP) for January, published ahead ...

Opposition councillors have signalled their support for Hackney Council’s new ‘green jobs hub’ – but said they hope to see it given more funding. The Town Hall last week announced the launch of a new ...

Mayor of Hackney Caroline Woodley has said she ‘cannot stand’ the use of strict ‘zero-tolerance’ policies in schools, as the local authority examines its approach to pupils’ behaviour amid ...