Andy Burnham “gets it” when it comes to devolving power to mayors and ensuring London’s success will benefit the whole UK, Sir Sadiq Khan has said. However the Mayor of London says he won’t be afraid ...

Around 70 firefighters and ten fire engines were called to a hotel fire on Amhurst Road yesterday afternoon, in an incident that forced the evacuation of 16 people but no injuries were reported. The ...

Homerton hit its four-hour A&E target this year — but the four-hour target itself has been accused of steering hospitals towards the patients who are easiest to treat, while the sickest wait longest ...

Hackney has joined Tower Hamlets and Lewisham in a legal challenge against the Mayor of London over his decision to cut the capital’s affordable housing target from 35 to 20 per cent. The three ...

The Green party has won a by-election in Hackney triggered by Zoë Garbett’s recent mayoral victory at the May local elections. Candidate Manal Massalha will represent Dalston ward for the party after ...

A council’s constitution is its rulebook — who chairs what, who decides what, and crucially, who gets to speak, question, petition and propose. In Hackney that rulebook sits on top of an unusual ...

Stephen McKay. Hackney Council bought 43 homes for temporary accommodation over two years without recording whether anyone was living in t ...

The Green party has held the Hackney Central ward seat in a by-election triggered by one of the party’s councillors resigning shortly after the May elections. The party’s candidate Noah Birksted-Breen ...

The council is one of a dozen London authorities buying up properties for emergency housing with no knowledge of whether tenants were evicted to make way for the sales, an investigation has found ...

Ishaque Ali’s death prompted a significant community response. On 30 June 1978, around 300 people marched from the site of the attack to Hackney Police Station carrying black flags and wearing black ...