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The Latest Breaking News from Hackney Council

Woman plunged to her death from sixth-floor Hackney flat while trying to unblock broken drainpipe

Police heard that neighbours had been climbing onto their balconies to unblock pipes

Evening Standard

High Court challenge over plans to close Hackney children’s centres dropped following 'unlawful' consultation

The council had planned to shut Fernbank and Sebright centres in Stoke Newington and Haggerston

Evening Standard

Hackney Council to slash charity grants amid budget crisis

Council will cut over £800,000 in grants to local charities as it tackles a projected £37m overspend

Evening Standard

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Hackney teachers warn borough will end up 'childless' as more schools face closure

Teachers have warned that secondary schools in Hackney could have to close in six to seven years as pupil numbers continue to drop

Evening Standard

Better than the Elizabeth Line? Chowdhury Walk wins RIBA's best new affordable housing award

Chowdhury Walk by Al-Jawad Pike is the winner of the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing

Evening Standard

Parents fear special needs pupils will suffer if Hackney school closes

Oldhill Community School is one of six primary schools facing merger or closure under new plans

Evening Standard

Waltham Forest Council faces backlash over plan to house 9,000 people in high-rise towers near Hackney Marshes

Campaign group Save Lea Marshes claims the development would threaten the area's ecology and be a flood risk

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Huge Jeremy Allen White billboard sparks planning row in Hackney

Hackney council have described the advertisement as ‘unlawful’

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Police accused of ‘re-traumatising’ Black child after he was seized by armed police for having a water pistol

After armed police detained him over a water pistol, officers turned up at Child X’s home again and seized his phone claiming that he was suspected of being involved in a crime - something the family has denied

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Hackney councillor Lee Laudat-Scott charged with sexual assault of a child days after quitting council

Lee Laudat-Scott appeared in court on Thursday charged under the sexual offences act with ‘intentionally touching’ a boy aged under 13

Evening Standard

Hackney Council hit by ‘avoidable’ cyber attack

Hundreds of thousands of Hackney resident records were accessed, with the attack described as 'severe' by ICO.

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Hackney family to pay £12,500 after building four rooms on top of home over 20 years ago

The family made ‘significant alterations’ to their home without the council’s consent in 1997, breaking the rules of their lease

Evening Standard

Parents eye legal action against 'horrific' Hackney Council decision to close school

Parents' opposition to the closure of Colvestone Primary School could be taken to the High Court

Evening Standard

Four Hackney schools to close due to 'significant decline in number of school-aged children'

Four primary schools will close at the start of the next school year due to hundreds of empty places in Hackney

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Evening Standard

Could Antoinette Fernandez be the next Diane Abbott?

The Nigerian-born activist is the first Black female Green Party candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Hannah Ghorashi meets her and discovers a unique riches-to-rags story

Evening Standard

Mayor of Hackney resigns after photo emerges of him partying with paedophile councillor

Philip Glanville admits ‘error of judgment’ after attending Eurovision party

Evening Standard

New swimming pool planned for London Fields next to much-loved lido

Hackney Council say the popular outdoor lido will remain open during the construction phase

Daily Mirror

Mum fears black mould spreading through home will KILL her three-year-old daughter

Terri Harrigan's daughter, Ariella, has suffered from breathing difficulties for 'most of her life' and her mum believes it could be down to the black mould in their East London home

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Mum fears black mould will kill her three-year-old daughter

A mum is "scared" her three-year-old with breathing difficulties "might die" due to black mould in her home. Terri Harrigan, 31, first found the mould after peeling back her wallpaper - shortly after moving into the property in D

Daily Mirror

'Luxury £1.5m shopping hub' built after London riots abandoned with just one shop left

Hackney Walk in east London was opened with plenty of fanfare as a new £1.5 million luxury shopping district but now six years later it lies empty but for one store

Evening Standard

Green Party reveals its 2024 London mayoral candidate

Hackney councillor Zoë Garbett is set to take on Sadiq Khan at the next mayoral election

Evening Standard

Stoke Newington High St closed for another week after partial building collapse

Eyewitnesses said it was ‘like a bomb that had gone off’ when rubble fell from the building on Friday

Evening Standard

Stoke Newington residents forced to evacuate homes over ‘hoax’ police call

Police ordered evacuation after concerning comments made in phone call

Evening Standard

Hackney Carnival cancelled ‘to observe period of national mourning’ after Queen’s death

Hackney Council ‘regretfully’ cancels event as mark of respect to late Majesty the Queen

Daily Record

Family-of-eight 'trapped' in tiny flat forced to share just three beds

Ms Laima moved into the flat initially some 17 years ago and is now crammed with six kids aged between 2 and 18.

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