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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Residents of a Lower Clapton council block have been left “angry, frustrated and exhausted” after their lift broke down more than seven weeks ago — with no repair date yet in sight.

After avoiding closure in 2025, London’s original Boxpark site at Bishopsgate Goodsyard near Shoreditch High Street Station can continue to play live music from its terrace after several residents ...

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.

In that first letter, sent the day after Tuesday’s full council vote, the Mayor told her Haifa counterpart, Yona Yahav, that the relationship “no longer reflects the strategic priorities of the ...

The reservoir, off Green Lanes at Woodberry Down, was awarded £700,000 in 2022 for a series of upgrades and now offers open water swimming, sailing and kayaking — the kind of transformation the Mayor ...