They singled out Sonder Space, the borough’s care leavers’ hub, where young people told inspectors they feel safe, listened to and respected. The hub was still only about to open when Ofsted last ...

Green and Independent Socialist groups with Pro-Palestine activists at a protest outside Hackney Town Hall in December 2025. Photograph:. Free for use by LDRS partners ...

Deputy mayor Jules Pipe gives speech on the Draft London Plan. Photograph: Kumail Jaffer / LDRS. London will aim far lower than the Government’s housing targets for the capital ...

Hackney’s London Fields is widely known for its lido but a smaller children’s pool has long been popular with local families in need of a free playing space. First opened in 1978, the paddling pool ...

Photograph: Hackney Council. Plans to let developers cut the proportion of affordable homes in new Hackney schemes hav ...

Hackney residents are campaigning to get their local Post Office reopened after its shock closure with a petition aimed partly at the landlord. London Fields Post Office on Broadway Market was ...

The row is the latest chapter in a saga stretching back more than a decade. The 1930s-era toilets stood empty for close to two decades before the Clapton Improvement Society cleaned up and reopened ...

Passers-by walking along the canalside at Hackney Wick, where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee Navigation, can spy at least two sunken boats within touching distance of each other. One is ...

Hackney’s Green party has defended its frontline politicians after they were accused of taking part in a “horrifying” protest where demonstrators repeatedly stabbed an effigy of Andy Burnham with ...

A rare signed set of the artist’s prints has sold at Bonhams for £4,096 including premium, with every penny bound (see below) for the NHS trust that runs the hospital on Homerton Row. The lot was ...

A community garden run by a Homerton mental-health charity has been awarded a Green Flag for the fifth year running, as the organisation behind the national scheme warns that access to safe, well-kept ...