The Latest Breaking News from Hackney

Liam Taylor will be sentenced at later date over killing of Ailish Walsh, 28, in December

The speed limit will be reduced to 20mph on main roads in five London boroughs this week in a bid to improve road safety. Transport for London will cut the speed limit on 17 miles of “red routes” under its control in Camden, Islington, Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets from…

In England, the council for the London borough of Hackney has announced plans to ban through traffic from from motorized vehicles from 75 percent of city streets. Electric vehicles and bicycles would still be allowed to travel through, as will emergency vehicles and trash collection trucks. The plan will be…

Like tenants across the country, residents in Hackney flats are facing unbearable conditions caused by mould and damp

Solicitor Zineb Boulefa, 31, lives with her daughter, 7, and son, 5, at a flat in Hindle House in Hackney, London, and claims she has battled mould, damp and floods of sewage

Lotions, potions and long-limbed ingénues, ES Magazine illustrator Lydia Silver is taking over a corner of Hackney with her debut show

A Met Police officer has been left seriously injured after they and a colleague were assaulted during a call-out in Hackney.

The two officers were confronted at an address in Hackney, east London.

The men coerced victims into sending cash through numerous calls