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Local elections 2022: your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK on May 5

May 5 sees a big set of elections across the UK. In England, there are contests across 146 councils. In London, every council seat is up for election across all 32 boroughs. Elsewhere where there are elections, at least one-third of the council seats are being contested, with some authorities…

The Conversation

London elections 2022: Labour retains Hackney

Londoners went to the polls for the local elections on May 5. Joe Talora has the lowdown on the vote in Hackney

Evening Standard

Living in Hackney: director Nadia Latif shares her tips for her diverse East End community

Film and theatre director Nadia Latif lives in Hackney’s real-life Albert Square. She explains why it’s the best part of London

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Man taken to hospital after fire near Hackney’s Broadway Market

A man has been rushed to hospital after a fire broke out in a flat close to Broadway Market.

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Black people are often associated with deviance – but I never understood the true impact until I was racially profiled

The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school in Hackney, London, is a harrowing example of how British society associates Blackness with deviant behaviour.

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Ordinary-looking London home hiding wacky floral interior 'must be seen to be believed'

The property in Hackney, north London looks like a standard home from the outside, but open the front door and you will feel like you're in a garden - and even the bathroom has a floral surprise

Daily Mirror

Hackney horses at risk but native goats thriving in the UK

Rare Breeds Survival Trust annual watchlist shows ‘low-input species’ benefit from changing nature of farming

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Provisions Wine & Cheese: Cult grocer to London’s top restaurant opens second site in Hackney

A favourite of some of London’s best chefs, Provisions has headed east for its next move

Evening Standard

Child Q: Council urges Met Police to admit racism as force changes strip-search policy

Black schoolgirl was ‘wholly failed’ by institutionally racist force, says Hackney chief

The Independent UK

Met police urged to admit racism after strip-search of black girl in Hackney

London council chief says treatment of 15-year-old at school shows institutional racism in force still exists

The Guardian - UK

Man tells of living with 'rats the size of dogs' in 'mouldy' council flat

Nic, 50, moved into his Hackney flat in 2001 and claims that ever since he has had to cope with a horrific pest infestation including huge rats the "size of his springer spaniel"

Daily Mirror

Buying off-plan: six-year high in sales of unbuilt homes in London hotspots Hackney and Southwark

Driven by a lack of available homes on the market, the share of homes sold off-plan rose for the first time since 2016, with Cotswolds, Southwark and Hackney among the hotspots

Evening Standard

Handel in Hackney review – easy beauty and determined string playing

The London Handel festival takes the composer’s music into spaces that wouldn’t normally hear it – with mixed results

The Guardian - UK

Child Q staff were not aware strip search had taken place, school says

Hackney school says no teachers were present during intimate search of a 15-year-old black girl by police

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Leaving London: this family swapped ‘spiritual home’ Hackney for York — and now save £2,600 a month on rent

London life got harder for Franki Dammone and her husband when children came along. Now, in York, they love being minutes from city and country.

Evening Standard

Hackney self-build dream: a chance encounter led one architect to create a brand new home on the derelict plot next door

The pandemic gave architect and designer Daniel Sanderson the chance to fulfil his dream: creating a home and crafting furniture with his own hands. Here’s how he did it.

The Independent UK

Deputy Hackney Mayor on Child Q: “We need action to ensure this never happens again”

Exclusive: “To every Black mother and daughter: we are taking action,” Councillor Anntoinette Bramble told The Independent.

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Met rebuked for strip searches two years before Child Q case in Hackney

Report said incidents were not all warranted or properly justified

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Child Q: Police booed and prevented from speaking at protest in Hackney over strip-search of schoolgirl

Senior police officers were booed and told to resign by angry protesters gathering in support of a black 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a “ traumatic” strip-search at her school.

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Child Q: Protests planned in Hackney after schoolgirl was strip-searched by police

The black 15-year-old girl was strip-searched while she was on her period after she was accused of cannabis possession

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Strip-search Met officers should face gross misconduct hearing

The Metropolitan Police officers who strip-searched a 15-year-old black schoolgirl at a school in Hackney should be investigated for gross misconduct, Sadiq Khan has said.

Evening Standard

Strip search of a black girl in Hackney school shames us all

When will you see black girls? That’s what I thought when reading about Child Q, a 15-year-old black schoolgirl from Hackney, taken out of her exam and strip searched by the Met Police while on her period, without adult supervision, because someone suspected she smelled of cannabis. After no drugs…

The Independent UK

Met Police officers who strip searched Black schoolgirl under investigation

Staff members at her Hackney-based secondary school called the police after falsely alleging drug possession

Evening Standard

Why was a black straight-A schoolgirl strip-searched and so badly failed by the Met?

Before December 2020, Child Q, a 15-year-old black schoolgirl from Hackney, was top of her class. Praised every day for her good work and good conduct, her family described her as “happy-go-lucky” and “bubbly” – she was even a prefect in her year.

The Guardian - UK

Police strip-searched a 15-year-old black girl at school. When will these abuses end?

The pupil from east London was humiliated, and we should be outraged. It seems police racism and misogyny is as bad as ever, says Labour MP Diane Abbott

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