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 ...

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 ...

Lord Len Duvall, who was elevated to the second chamber by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer late last year, said he didn’t want to comment on “speculation” around the Mayor’s next moves but appeared ...

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 ...

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 local elections have resulted in an epic landslide victory for the Green party, which now has 42 councillors (up from four) and controls three quarters of the 57 seats on Hackney Council. This ...

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 ...

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

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 ...