Cllr Soraya Adejare, cabinet member for children, young people and early intervention, said childcare “cannot be a postcode lottery”, nor a burden councils should be left to shoulder alone, and called ...

In City and Hackney, the regulator found far too little supervision of staff who were dealing with patients in acute psychiatric crises, with more than two-thirds (68 per cent) missing mandatory ...

Titbits has always suspected that the true test of a politician’s cosmopolitan credentials is whether they can gaze admiringly across the Channel and say the words “be more French” with a straight ...

Photograph: Kumail Jaffer/LDRS Hackney is one of three London boroughs with no burial space left, and City Hall has been warned the shortage will spread across the capital within 15 years unless the ...

The pub with a playground is one of parenthood’s small mercies: somewhere adults can finish a conversation — and a pint — while the children entertain themselves. Now a Dalston father of two has built ...

The Clapton Tram depot site on Upper Clapton Road in August 2025. Image: Google. A historic tram site in Hackney could be given a new lease of life under fresh planning proposals ...

Her thesis, ‘Structure Liberates?’, names the school outright, and devotes a section to a phrase that would later echo in a parent’s submission to Wood’s review: the verbal cane.