‘More like 20 years’: Zoë Garbett on 100 days in office
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
City Hall says failing to adapt could cost London up to £36bn a year by the 2050s
Record grades across Hackney as academies report best-ever GCSE results
Provisional figures put the borough above emerging national and London averages, the Town Hall says
Sir Patrick Vernon demands Cambridge culture review after Arday vigil
Sir Patrick Vernon, a former Hackney councillor, says equality law failed the professor and press regulation must follow
Man charged with arson after fires started in London Fields
Police and fire crews were called to the park shortly after 5am on Saturday
Boy, 12, drowns in River Lea at Hackney Marshes
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
Councillors rail against cuts to ‘one of London’s busiest’ bus routes
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
Hackney sixth-formers celebrate results as three head to Oxbridge
Mossbourne sends students to Oxford and Cambridge, while a City Academy student juggled A-levels with international BMX
Haifa mayor calls for ‘dialogue’ but leaves Citizen’s questions unanswered
Yona Yahav’s office sent a newspaper article and a statement from an interfaith forum convened under his own auspices
Council rejects self-storage plans for crumbling Anvil House
Officers criticised an 'excessively prominent' top storey, poor-quality cladding and unfinished bat surveys
‘No postcode lottery’: Greens take Hackney childcare case to ministers
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
Watchdog downgrades Hackney mental health crisis care over safety failures
Two-thirds of crisis staff missed mandatory supervision, and a bathroom CCTV blind spot went unfixed for two years