The Green party has won a majority of the seats on Hackney Council. The Conservatives have won two wards: Springfield and Stamford Hill West. Newly-elected mayor Zoë Garbett has been re-elected as a ...

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 ...

Voter turnout for mayoral contest was 40.98 percent – the highest since 2010, when the local elections at the same time as a general election. Turnout across wards was also high, as the graph below ...

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

A man has been arrested over a suspected antisemitic hate crime after threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road. The incident took place on board a 254 bus in ...

Don’t forget to vote today. The polls are open until 10.00pm on Thursday 7 May for the local elections. All registered voters aged 18 and over across the borough can cast ballots. Voters will have to ...

The Green party’s candidate for Hackney mayor is facing criticism for refusing to sign a letter praising the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Golders Green knife attacks last month. Cllr Zoë ...

Sir Sadiq Khan could “of course” make a significant contribution to the House of Lords, a new Labour peer has said. Lord Len Duvall, who was elevated to the second chamber by prime minister Sir Keir ...

Last night, 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to a residential block fire near Mount Pleasant Lane in Clapton. The London Fire Brigade began receiving calls around 8:04pm when ...