Photograph: LDRS Hackney Council has changed course on plans to sell off derelict public toilets in a win for community campaigners. On Monday (20 July) the new Green administration officially ...

Parents and children at the paddling pool protest on Monday, 20 July. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga. Free for use by LDRS partners. Hackney’s London Fields is widely known fo ...

A 24-year-old man remains in a critical condition in hospital following an assault near Well Street Common, with police appealing for witnesses. Officers were called to Victoria Park Road at 1.12am on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...