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 ...

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 ...

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

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 new mayor Zoë Garbett pledged to ‘change the system’ as she claimed victory at the local elections. What has she promised to do, and how will she try to achieve her goals?

Dozens of Labour party members in Diane Abbott’s Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, among them the former mayor of Hackney Caroline Woodley, have called on Andy Burnham to restore the ...

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 former Queensbridge councillor who twice stood for mayor of Hackney has had his bank account closed after a visit to Ukraine, and is warning others who travel there in support of the country that ...

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 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 ...

The Mossbourne Federation declined three times to apologise to children whose treatment was found harmful by a safeguarding review, as councillors and the safeguarding commissioner who commissioned ...