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• Campaigner Alan Bates proposes private prosecutions over Post Office IT scandal - Hackney Gazette

  13-04-2024 12:52 via news.google.com
  
  Campaigner Alan Bates proposes private prosecutions over Post Office IT scandal  Hackney Gazette
  
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• Titbits – Locks, frocks and five-year plans

  03-09-2026 17:32 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
  
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• Council hires Wates to finish stalled Britannia regeneration

  03-09-2026 16:56 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Hackney Council has hired a new contractor to take over a major regeneration project after its original construction partner went bust following a High Court case. The final phase of the Britannia Project, now estimated to cost over £197 million, was put on ice after the council’s main contractor, Ardmore Construction Group Ltd, entered administration…
  
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• Labour attacks Green record as Garbett marks 100 days

  28-08-2026 15:41 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Hackney’s Labour opposition has marked the first 100 days of Mayor Zoë Garbett’s Green administration with a scathing attack, accusing it of ignoring local issues while quietly overturning its own manifesto pledges. The party said the Greens had no plan to carry out basic repairs, had failed to speak out over potential bus cuts or…
  
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• Self-swab cervical screening now offered at every Hackney GP surgery

  28-08-2026 10:06 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Rollout to all 1,100 practices in the capital is aimed at women six months or more overdue, who can now take their own sample without an internal examination
  
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• Plans submitted for 23-storey ‘co-living’ high rise in Homerton

  27-08-2026 14:58 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  A ‘co-living’ high-rise block could be coming to Hackney under plans to knock down and redevelop abandoned garages in Homerton
  
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• London Mayor warned: retrofit the capital’s overheating homes faster

  26-08-2026 19:25 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Three-quarters of the capital’s social housing stock is judged at high risk of overheating
  
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• Greens and Labour trade blows over London Fields paddling pool

  26-08-2026 14:55 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Cabinet member Jacob Cable says the pool 'sat closed and derelict' under Labour, as Cllr Anntoinette Bramble accuses the new administration of offering 'kind platitudes' instead of a firm commitment
  
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• Greens and Labour trade blame over London Fields paddling pool

  26-08-2026 14:55 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Cabinet member Jacob Cable says the pool 'sat closed and derelict' under Labour, as Cllr Anntoinette Bramble accuses the new administration of offering 'kind platitudes' instead of a firm commitment
  
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• Residents fight Town Hall plan to build on Hoxton community garden

  26-08-2026 12:50 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Campaigners say the 16-year-old kitchen garden on St John's Estate cannot be moved, as Hackney Council proposes 32 social rent homes on the site
  
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• Hoxton playgrounds locked for years as Labour councillor launches campaign to reopen them

  26-08-2026 11:51 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Repairs are underway at one Wenlock Barn play area. The other needs more than a routine fix — and the council has set no timetable for it.
  
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• ‘More like 20 years’: Zoë Garbett on 100 days in office

  21-08-2026 18:15 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  From a £53m funding gap to a fight over single-sex spaces, Hackney's first Green mayor on rearranging the furniture and setting a new tone at the Town Hall
  
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• Council must keep tenants cool under new heat law

  21-08-2026 10:59 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  City Hall says failing to adapt could cost London up to £36bn a year by the 2050s
  
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• Record grades across Hackney as academies report best-ever GCSE results

  20-08-2026 18:04 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Provisional figures put the borough above emerging national and London averages, the Town Hall says
  
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• Vernon demands Cambridge culture review after Arday vigil

  18-08-2026 16:31 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Sir Patrick Vernon, a former Hackney councillor, says equality law failed the professor and press regulation must follow
  
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• Sir Patrick Vernon demands Cambridge culture review after Arday vigil

  18-08-2026 16:31 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Sir Patrick Vernon, a former Hackney councillor, says equality law failed the professor and press regulation must follow
  
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• Man charged with arson after fires started in London Fields

  17-08-2026 16:23 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Police and fire crews were called to the park shortly after 5am on Saturday
  
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• Boy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes

  17-08-2026 15:12 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Police divers recovered the child after a six-hour search on the first day of a heat-health alert that warned of a rising risk of drowning
  
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• Councillors rail against cuts to ‘one of London’s busiest’ bus routes

  17-08-2026 15:07 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Politicians from across north London are lobbying against Transport for London (TfL) plans to change several bus routes travelling through a Tube network dead zone
  
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• Hackney sixth-formers celebrate results as three head to Oxbridge

  13-08-2026 19:33 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Mossbourne sends students to Oxford and Cambridge, while a City Academy student juggled A-levels with international BMX
  
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• Haifa mayor calls for ‘dialogue’ but leaves Citizen’s questions unanswered

  13-08-2026 17:58 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Yona Yahav’s office sent a newspaper article and a statement from an interfaith forum convened under his own auspices
  
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• Council rejects self-storage plans for crumbling Anvil House

  13-08-2026 12:07 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Officers criticised an “excessively prominent” top storey, poor-quality cladding and unfinished bat surveys
  
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• ‘No postcode lottery’: Greens take Hackney childcare case to ministers

  12-08-2026 19:21 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Town Hall asks parents for evidence to present to the government, delivering half a manifesto pledge while a promised review of fee rises inherited from Labour remains unfinished
  
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• Watchdog downgrades Hackney mental health crisis care over safety failures

  12-08-2026 15:45 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Two-thirds of crisis staff missed mandatory supervision, and a bathroom CCTV blind spot went unfixed for two years
  
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• Hackney has run out of space to bury its dead

  11-08-2026 11:36 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Three London boroughs have no burial space left, and City Hall has been warned the shortage will spread across the capital within 15 years unless the London mayor intervenes
  
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• Titbits – Je ne regrette rien

  11-08-2026 10:58 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Read this month's column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
  
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• Dalston dad launches app to find pubs with playgrounds

  08-08-2026 11:58 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Alastair Duncan says playgrounds signal to children "that this is a space for them too"
  
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• ‘The verbal cane’

  07-08-2026 15:18 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Teachers at two Mossbourne schools say shouting at pupils came with the job.The federation now vows to do its best to end it
  
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• Victorian tram depot in Clapton set for revival

  06-08-2026 18:42 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  The 1873 depot, once home to horse-drawn trams, survived a demolition threat in 2011
  
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• Boxpark keeps licence despite ‘tsunami of noise’ complaints

  04-08-2026 18:41 via hackneycitizen.co.uk
  Police and environmental health declined to back the ten residents who sought a formal review
  
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