Hackney Citizen

Campaigners urge Homerton NHS Trust to eschew contract with controversial US data firm ‘There are widely-held concerns about the inadequate safeguards Palantir offers regarding the confidentiality of our personal health records’

Campaigners urge Homerton NHS Trust to eschew contract with controversial US data firm

‘There are widely-held concerns about the inadequate safeguards Palantir offers regarding the confidentiality of our personal health records’

#Homerton #Hackney

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Broken lifts, loss of hot water and overdue repairs: Hackney Council pays out ‘astonishing’ £572,000 in compensation Hackney councillor told officers she had gone two months without hot water in her housing block

Broken lifts, loss of hot water and overdue repairs: Hackney Council pays out ‘astonishing’ £572,000 in compensation

Hackney councillor told officers she had gone two months without hot water in her housing block

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#Hackney #housing

Collection of iconic Hackney Empire statue sculptor goes up for auction ‘The clays, the heat, the oxides and even the water used to form the things I make are in many ways equivalent to the forces which originally shaped the earth’

Collection of iconic Hackney Empire statue sculptor goes up for auction

#hackney #hackneyempire #sculpture #ceramics

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This is part of an amazing story if anyone fancies donating. (I’ll write it up sometime because it’s a very inspiring and timely example of the power of community organising at this time.)

Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’ ‘Nobody else’s journey takes half an hour longer because they’re with four other people’

Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’

‘Nobody else’s journey takes half an hour longer because they’re with four other people’

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#Homerton #Hackney #TfL

COMING UP: Alela Diane
+ King Creosote & The Earlies

For one night only… Names Records brings together some of the magnificent artists that shaped the label some 20 years ago for a very special show at Hackney Church.

📍 Hackney Church
🗓️ Sat 11 Oct

🎟️ Final tickets
eatyourownears.com/king-creosote

Meet Nathan Creighton: the former Mossbourne student teaching maths at Oxford University Awarded an academic scholarship to study at Cambridge University, Nathan later moved to Oxford for doctoral work

Meet Nathan Creighton: the former Mossbourne student teaching maths at Oxford University

#Hackney #teaching #education

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Cake to celebrate: ‘lifeline’ Laburnum Boat Club marks its massive makeover ‘It’s a space where young people feel heard and valued and supported to be the best they can be’

Cake to celebrate: ‘lifeline’ Laburnum Boat Club marks its massive makeover

#Hackney #boating #rowing

www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/10/03/c...

‘She can’t vanish’: Community mourns death of beloved local homeless woman Fundraiser launched for a bench or plaque to honour Tracey O’Brien

‘She can’t vanish’: Community mourns death of beloved local homeless woman

#Hackney

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Final Woodberry Down plans win approval despite fears over ‘staggering’ loss of wildlife Campaigners have raised concerns over biodiversity and cuts to social housing

Final Woodberry Down plans win approval despite fears over ‘staggering’ loss of wildlife

#Hackney #planning #housing #biodiversity

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Come clean on buried ‘LTNs don’t cut traffic’ report, Sadiq Khan told The City Hall Conservatives transport spokesman Keith Prince said mayor must reveal whether he was involved

Come clean on buried ‘LTNs don’t cut traffic’ report, Sadiq Khan told

#Hackney #London #LTNs #transport

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Popular Dalston bakery giving prison leavers tools to flourish in ‘chaotic’ London The Dusty Knuckle has been praised as an exemplar in how to support ex-offenders

Popular Dalston bakery giving prison leavers tools to flourish in ‘chaotic’ London

#Hackney #bakery #prison

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‘Desperately disappointing for bereaved and injured’ – plans to end road deaths delayed till 2026 Campaigners react as second phase of TfL’s much-vaunted Vision Zero Action Plan hits snag

‘Desperately disappointing for bereaved and injured’ – plans to end road deaths delayed till 2026

#Hackney #London #roadsafety #transport

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Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering Plant-Based Hackney fears Town Hall is ‘nowhere near as ambitious as it claims to be’

Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering

#Hackney #food #climate #environment

www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/09/19/c...

Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain, Nunnery Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Amazing cultural richness’ Scientists, artists and more pose for Peaky Blinders photographer Robert Viglasky

Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain, Nunnery Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Amazing cultural richness’

#Hackney #EastLondon #photography #exhibition

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Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time Mayor of London has previously resisted calls to label Israel’s military campaign a genocide but now says it’s “inescapable” to conclude that

Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time

#Hackney #London #Gaza

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‘The spirit of a place’ – How Dalston painters and potters fought back to save studio block from closure Hackney Council moved to sell off Ashwin Street’s creative workspaces earlier this year, but artists have now bought the site after refusing to give up

‘The spirit of a place’ – How Dalston painters and potters fought back to save studio block from closure

#Hackney #Dalston #art

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Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’

Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses

#Hackney #shooting #police

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Former councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims Vincent Stops responds to a report by campaigners that called his involvement an ‘egregious lack of transparency’

Former councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims

#Hackney #planning #housing

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Homerton dietician warns of ‘postcode lottery’ over access to weight loss drugs The London Assembly Health Committee heard that high demand for the drugs in London has forced consumers into buying counterfeit medicines

Homerton dietician warns of ‘postcode lottery’ over access to weight loss drugs

#Hackney #London #weightloss #health

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Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life Javon Riley given minimum term of 34 years for ‘meticulously organising’ attack at Evin restaurant last year

Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

#Hackney #crime #police

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Iconic Hackney estate made famous by rent campaign set for sweeping regeneration New Era residents took on their former landlord and won – now their homes are due for large-scale refurbishment

Iconic Hackney estate made famous by rent campaign set for sweeping regeneration

#Hackney #housing #planning

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‘Ridiculous’: Council blocks juice bar from putting tables outside due to ‘encroachment’ on nearby park

#Hackney #smallbusiness #planning

www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/09/11/c...

Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of consultation ‘con job’ in scathing report Morning Lane People’s Space urges Town Hall to ‘do better’, with ‘future of the town centre at stake’

Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of consultation ‘con job’ in scathing report

#Hackney #housing #planning #codesign #consultation

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Kokin, Stratford, food review: ‘So romantic, so artfully curated’ Learn from me though, put your best heels on, clunk on your baubles and move money over from your savings (you’ll need a fair wad)

Kokin, Stratford, food review: ‘So romantic, so artfully curated’

#EastLondon #food #restaurants

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Titbits – Lording it up Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

Titbits – Lording it up

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough...

#Hackney #titbits

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Implaqueable women – The Hackney Society celebrates those turned down for ‘not being famous enough’ ‘It’s not that they weren’t doing anything – it’s that it wasn’t deemed important enough to record’

Implaqueable women – The Hackney Society celebrates those turned down for ‘not being famous enough’

#Hackney #history #women

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Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: ‘Well-realised wine, disappointing food’ This natural wine bar fulfils its main brief, but the food feels like an afterthought

Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: ‘Well-realised wine, disappointing food’

#Hackney #wine #food

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Bad Boy Pizzeria, Bethnal Green, food review: ‘One for the die-hard pie fans’ The New York-style restaurant is proof that the ‘appetite for pies with zippy, cartoonish branding has not abated’

Bad Boy Pizzeria, Bethnal Green, food review: ‘One for the die-hard pie fans’

#Hackney #EastLondon #pizza #food

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Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’ The latest pairing of modern art with the Italian sculptor’s work explores ‘the various ways the human form can come to harm’

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’

#Hackney #London #art #exhibitions

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