New figures released yesterday show the number of teenage pregnancies in Hackney is continuing to fall. The Public Health England statistics report a 6.2 per cent drop in the teenage pregnancy rate during 2012, which follows a 26.4 per cent drop the year before. Since the national teenage pregnancy strategy was launched in 2000, the […]
JD Wetherspoon, Baxters Court, Hackney has been issued with a court order to stop making and serving food after Hackney Council environmental health officers found cockroaches in the kitchen. On 12 February, Stratford Magistrates Court issued a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order, prohibiting the preparation and cooking of food at Baxters Court J D Wetherspoon, 282 […]
Detectives from the Flying Squad are appealing for information following an armed robbery at ASDA, Clapton Common, in which one member of staff was hit on the head and another tied up. Police were called to the store following a report of a robbery at approximately 11:40 pm last night, Tuesday 4 February. At approximately […]
UPDATE AYLA WAS FOUND TIED TO A BENCH LATE LAST NIGHT. SHE WAS REUNITED WITH HER OWNER THIS MORNING. Her owner is frantic with worry since she vanished this afternoon from outside Clapton Library on Northwold Road, and desperate to get her back. Ayla who is a rescue dog is thought to be about […]
Officers were initially called to Garnham Close, N16 at around 2:40 am on this morning following reports of shots fired. They arrived to find no people present and no evidence of a firearm having been discharged. They were subsequently alerted at around 3:20 am of a man, in his 20’s who arrived at a north […]
A remembrance book will will be available at Hackney Town Hall from Monday 9 December in memory of Nelson Mandela. Flags were flown at half mast today as a mark of respect to the former South African leader who died yesterday Thursday 5th December, at his home in a suburb of Johannesburg. Mayor Jules Pipe […]
Detectives investigating the murder of Antonio Rodney-Cole have arrested two men. The men aged 19 and 22 yrs, were arrested on 4 December at an address in Hackney on suspicion of murder. Both men remain in custody at separate east London police stations. Officers continue to appeal for witnesses and information following the murder in […]
Four fire engines, 21 firefighters and officers were called to a flat fire on Cropley Street in Hoxton on Saturday morning. The fire badly damaged a flat on the fourth floor of the eight storey block and one man left the property before the Brigade arrived. The Brigade was called at 11:26 am and the […]
Tis the season for shopping and much merriment. For those who yearn for something more traditional, local and reflecting the diversity of Hackney, it’s all at your door-step and kicks off on Sunday, 1st December. Here is a sample of what’s around. For more festive happenings, please check out our Events Gigs n Things […]
Seven councils have begun a legal challenge against cuts that would close 10 fire stations across London. Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Islington, Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets councils are making an application for judicial review of the decisions by the Mayor of London, London Fire Commissioner and London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority to implement the […]
