Linea had pledged the ‘Shoreditch Works’ project would deliver enough space for 4,150 workers, while adding 40 new residences. This would increase the site’s total number of homes to 78, with 35% ...

An artist has launched a bill of creative workshops encouraging people to disconnect from their phones. TAP-IN is a series of adult-only evening workshops hosted by artist Emily Tracy, an artist whose ...

If there’s anyone who would know how to get the best of an archive, it’s Joseph. He was recently praised at Hackney Town Hall for his work at Hackney Archives, which in November 2025 became accredited ...

A planned proliferation of data centres in London could “undermine” the capital’s decarbonisation goals, the London Assembly has been told. Between 50 and 60 of around 100 planned data centres – which ...

Taking place on 29 January, the event marked the 60th anniversary of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT), a Hackney-based charity supporting people who are homeless and recovering from addiction.

Some 60 years after he put on a Hackney Rugby Club shirt for the very first time, former team member Richard McDonald is documenting its rich history ...

Some 60 years after he first put on a Hackney shirt, McDonald spoke to the Citizen from his home in Reading, proudly leafing through scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and faded club photographs he ...

Ofsted has urged Hackney Council to act quickly to bring down the number of pupils in the borough being excluded from school.

A change.org petition calling for the inquiry has been set up by Andy Leary-May, a former Mossbourne parent, who in 2024 founded Educating Hackney to draw “attention to links between the way behaviour ...

There is especially a lack of affordable family-sized and accessible homes in the capital, with Sir Sadiq Khan told to adopt new measures to enable and incentivise these types of properties, despite ...

Ozsen is not the first Hackney councillor to resign from the Party. In 2024, three former Labour councillors – Claudia Turbet-Delof, Penny Wrout and Fliss Premru – left after being suspended by ...

Proponents say LTNs – sections of road which are blocked off to cars but open to cyclists, emergency vehicles and waste vehicles – encourage people to choose more eco-friendly methods of transport and ...