Hackney businesses have warned they are losing one of their best trading days of the year following changes to the route of the Hackney Half. The popular half marathon has taken place in the borough ...

Residents of The Mount, a council-owned maisonette block in Clapton, say the Town Hall has failed to provide adequate support in the wake of a fire on 5 May that destroyed one flat and damaged five ...

A Green party councillor has quit within days of winning his seat because he was voted in against local government rules. James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes ...

Hackney’s new Mayor Zoë Garbett has named the first members of her cabinet, just days after sweeping the Greens to an historic victory at the Town Hall and ending more than four decades of Labour ...

In a statement, the Hackney Greens thanked all those who helped the party in the election campaign and said: “We look forward to running a Green council that keeps the spirit of community, ...

The Green party has won a majority of the seats on Hackney Council. The Conservatives have won two wards: Springfield and Stamford Hill West. Newly-elected mayor Zoë Garbett has been re-elected as a ...

Garbett won the mayoralty in a landslide election, winning by a margin of almost 10,000 votes. The Greens secured 46.88 per cent of the vote – amounting to 35,720 ballots – whilst Labour fell to 35.26 ...

Voter turnout for mayoral contest was 40.98 percent – the highest since 2010, when the local elections at the same time as a general election. Turnout across wards was also high, as the graph below ...

The Green party candidate Zoë Garbett has won the Hackney mayoral contest with 35,720 votes.

A man has been arrested over a suspected antisemitic hate crime after threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road. The incident took place on board a 254 bus in ...

The polls are open until 10.00pm on Thursday 7 May for the local elections. All registered voters aged 18 and over across the borough can cast ballots. Voters will have to produce photo identification ...

The Green party’s candidate for Hackney mayor is facing criticism for refusing to sign a letter praising the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Golders Green knife attacks last month. Cllr Zoë ...