A Hackney borough secondary school, has recently been the focus of  nationwide and international attention because of a pioneering scheme to educate youths on LGBT awareness, (for the uninitiated, that stands for Lesbian, Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender). Stoke Newington School claims to have virtually eradicated homophobia amongst its students, thanks to its diversity studies, which includes [...]

Clapton based Independent book store Pages of Hackney, was awarded Best new business at the Mayor of Hackney’s Business Awards 2010, on Tuesday September 14th, after beating off stiff competition from Dezeen Limited and Lock 7. The awards where handed out at a reception on Tuesday 14 September, by Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe. Now in [...]

Despite the new coalition Government plans to withdraw funding to Councils, for the Swim4Life free swimming programme (16 and under and over 60s), Hackney Council has decided to continue providing free swimming to older and young people in the borough. Mayor Pipe said: “Residents aged 60 and over, plus under 18s, can swim for free [...]

Mayor Jules Pipe was elected as the new chair of London Councils today, Tuesday 8 June. He was voted into the position by a meeting of borough leaders. The first directly elected mayor of Hackney, Pipe was elected mayor for a third term last month. He is currently one of four directly elected Mayors in [...]

Following heated criticism, over what many have seen as a total disregard of peoples safety, at an out door event in London Fields organized by the council, Mayor Jules Pipe has since said: “I am deeply concerned about the shooting on Saturday and my thoughts are with the injured man and his family at this [...]

Employees at Hackney council have been telling callers that there is no Conservative candidate, standing for Mayor of Hackney in the coming elections, this according to the Hackney Citizen and Andrew Boff. The Conservative Mayoral candidates attention, was brought to this issue by ‘concerned residents’.  Only last month, Boff was told his election address would [...]

With local and national elections closing in on us, do you know who the mayoral candidates are for the borough of Hackney? One of the hopefuls standing against current mayor and Labour candidate, Jules Pipe, who has been in office since December 2002, is Conservative member of the London Assembly Andrew Boff, elected in the [...]