Crew Energy was founded after a group of Friends of the Earth members became frustrated at the slow rate of action against climate change. Costin said: “They’d been on the marches, they’d signed ...

The Mayor of London has been told to “get a handle” on the capital’s housing crisis as progress on building affordable homes stagnates. Data from the Greater London Authority (GLA) shows that ...

Hackney Council is forecast to spend almost £40 million on temporary workers this year amid a struggle to recruit and retain “specialist” staff. Reports published last month show the local authority ...

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) said the Town hall had failed to come up with alternative ways to help a resident with eligible care needs, known only as ‘Miss X’, after it ...

The Town Hall’s planning committee was last week set to approve a bid to convert two family-sized houses in Clapton into large HMOs, with up to seven and nine tenants in each respective building.

A Hackney primary school that has stood empty since its closure last year is set to reopen as a special school. After a collapse in pupil numbers, the council closed Baden Powell Primary alongside ...

A Hackney church has been dubbed the “greenest” in the country after it was transformed by a community energy project. Last year, in an ambitious final project of outgoing Reverend Niall Weir, St Paul ...

For most of us, relationships with people are at the core of daily life. Yet beneath these obvious attachments, we are also tied to landscapes, seascapes and other portions of the globe’s surface that ...

Care, compassion and hope are not values you typically associate with recipe books, but We Cook Plants is different. Sarah Bentley and collaborators have squeezed 13 years of community cuisine into ...

Who will outsmart whom in the age of cyber-intelligence? This is an urgent question for those running the country, but it also makes for a great plotline in the new thriller The Boy on the Train by ...