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We're nothing like The Wire, say Hackney's angry residents

24.10.11
Hackney is at loggerheads with Channel 4 over a television drama about drug-riddled council estates... more

Tower Hamlets mayor spends £72 a day to lease Mercedes rather than use Tube

18.07.11
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is spending about £1,500 a month on a chauffeur-driven car, it is revealed... more

Hackney 'run like dictatorship': Mayor accused as councillor defects to Tories

20.05.11
Labour councillor brands Hackney council a 'dictatorship' after defecting to the Conservatives ... more

London's most vulnerable will suffer 64 per cent cut in grants

17.01.11
Crucial services helping the capital's poorest and most vulnerable people will be forced to close because of drastic cutbacks... more

Town hall jobs and key services under threat in £4 billion cuts

14.12.10
Town halls across the capital will be forced to dramatically reduce frontline services after the Government imposed a funding cut of more than 11 per cent... more

Local services to be slashed as council budgets are cut by 10%

13.12.10
Town hall leaders are warning of devastating cuts to public services, after receiving their budgets from central government... more

George Osborne’s cuts to hit London policing and schools

13.12.10
Deep cuts in London policing, local government and schools were announced as George Osborne’s squeeze on spending reached front line services... more

Pay rises for most councillors as town halls cut jobs and services

09.12.10
Councillors in London award themselves almost £32 million in pay and allowances despite austerity measures sweeping through town halls... more

Planning for when the 2012 Games journalists leave Hackney

24.09.10
A metaphorical estates agent's board is planted in the Olympic Park as the search begins for a post-Games tenant for the vast media centre... more

Housing benefit cuts will harm capital, says Boris Johnson

19.07.10
Cross-party pressure is growing on the Government to rethink plans to slash the benefit in London... more

Housing benefit curbs 'will push out the poor'

23.06.10
Thousands of poor families living in central London are at risk of losing their homes because of the Chancellor's housing benefit reforms, councils warned... more

Town Halls to lose £355m in London Budget cuts

22.06.10
Budget: Cuts to key frontline services are imminent as London local government faces losing at least £355 million this year... more

Tory falls foul of mayoral bid rules

04.05.10
Tory bidding to become mayor of Hackney has been banned from the council's election leaflet because he broke rules by criticising the cost of its Labour administration... more

London councillors' 20% pay rise in three years

20.10.09
Councillors in London have voted themselves 20 per cent pay rises since being elected, figures reveal... more

Advisers will guide Baby P council chiefs

27.02.09
The council blamed for the Baby P tragedy has called in help from other councils to improve its service and reputation... more

Labour heavyweights plan mayoral bids to 'stop Ken'

26.02.09
Senior Labour figures are planning to run for Mayor of London as "stop Ken" candidates... more

£28 million: the annual payout to our councillors

02.12.08
Councillors in London are taking home £28million a year in pay and allowances, it was revealed ... more

Moving Olympic media centre would save £100m

28.11.08
Cost-cutting proposals to move part of the 2012 media centre from Hackney to Stratford City have taken a step forward... more

Tory councils 'get easy ride on cheap homes'

21.11.08
Boris Johnson was accused of letting Tory boroughs off the hook over affordable housing by Labour council chiefs... more

Fears over legacy in the 'forgotten Olympic borough'

18.11.08
Hackney has become the "forgotten Olympic borough", with a promised legacy of 8,000 skilled jobs falling victim to the recession, local politicians claim... more

Does the £1.6bn Westfield shopping centre spell doom for small shops?

23.10.08
The £1.6bn Westfield shopping centre is a hugely ambitious scheme but its effect on local bus routes, traffic and markets could be devastating... more

Olympics media centre cut back to rein in costs

09.10.08
Olympics chiefs have drastically scaled down the 2012 media centre in a bid to save up to £100million from the Games budget... more

Synagogue walls daubed with anti-Jewish graffiti

15.05.08
London's Jewish community has been targeted by a wave of anti-Semitic graffiti... more


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