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Upper Clapton rapper Professor Green dished out breakfasts to Hackney schoolchildren as part of a UK-wide campaign to combat hunger.

Published: 9:00 AM May 19, 2021    NEU school staff and their supporters stage a school picket outside Leaways Special School operated by private, for-profit Kedleston Group, on March 30.  - Credit: Amanda Bentham School union staff have settled a dispute with an Upper Clapton special needs school, following strike action in March.  The long-running dispute saw staff allege "appalling" conditions and poor education provision for students, among other issues, at privately run, for-profit Leaways School in Theydon Road, since December last year.  The National Education Union (NEU) set...

A handy Hackney guide for what will happen in step 3 of the coronavirus lockdown easing roadmap when 17th May lockdown rules are announced by Boris Johnson

Bandcamp / Buy Pulling Teeth, LCY’s second solo EP for their own SZNS7N imprint, is pitched as a concept record. The EP, we’re told, follows its central character Ériu—part dog, part human, part robot—on a journey through a dystopian, post-human world. As is often the case with these things, the extent to which all of this comes across during the EP’s six tracks depends on how invested the listener is in the concept. In this particular instance, it matters little either way: with or without a post-human dystopia, these are rich compositions, reverent in their...

George Binette, Hackney North & Stoke Newington Clp Trade Union Liaison Officer Published: 8:30 AM April 17, 2021    MP Diane Abbott with striking Leaways NEU members - Credit: George Binette On March 30 and 31 National Education Union (NEU) members took strike action at Leaways special school, backed by Labour Party members and MP Diane Abbott. These marked the 13th and 14th strike days at the private school in Upper Clapton, operated by the for-profit Kedleston Group. Nearly 90 pupils attend Leaways with many previously excluded from mainstream education. All have established social, emot...