Ofsted has urged Hackney Council to act quickly to bring down the number of pupils in the borough being excluded from school.

Some 60 years after he put on a Hackney Rugby Club shirt for the very first time, former team member Richard McDonald is documenting its rich history ...

Some 60 years after he first put on a Hackney shirt, McDonald spoke to the Citizen from his home in Reading, proudly leafing through scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and faded club photographs he ...

A planned proliferation of data centres in London could “undermine” the capital’s decarbonisation goals, the London Assembly has been told. Between 50 and 60 of around 100 planned data centres – which ...

Taking place on 29 January, the event marked the 60th anniversary of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT), a Hackney-based charity supporting people who are homeless and recovering from addiction.

If there’s anyone who would know how to get the best of an archive, it’s Joseph. He was recently praised at Hackney Town Hall for his work at Hackney Archives, which in November 2025 became accredited ...

Sceptics have also expressed concerns about whether London has the grid capacity to accommodate new data centres. The London Assembly says one data centre may use an amount of electricity equivalent ...

Proponents say LTNs – sections of road which are blocked off to cars but open to cyclists, emergency vehicles and waste vehicles – encourage people to choose more eco-friendly methods of transport and ...

Ozsen is not the first Hackney councillor to resign from the Party. In 2024, three former Labour councillors – Claudia Turbet-Delof, Penny Wrout and Fliss Premru – left after being suspended by ...

A coroner has ruled it is impossible to know if a Hackney Council worker’s untimely death from lung disease was from treating damp and mould in social housing. Daniel ‘Dannie’ Rhoden died in hospital ...

London’s new Nightlife Commission is an “evolution” of City Hall’s plan to ensure the capital thrives as a 24-hour city rather than an admission that the former controversial ‘Night Czar’ failed in ...