• Dalston residents can have their say on new school

  By poppy_smith at 11:39 on 25/03/13

  

  Members of the community are being encouraged to have their say about revised plans for a brand new school which will provide hundreds of much needed secondary school places in the south of the borough.     Mossbourne Academy – one of the most successful schools in the country – wants to open a second school on the former site of Cardinal Pole lower school, near Victoria Park. The school will utilise the...

• Dalston businesses encouraged to apply for catering opportunities

  By poppy_smith at 13:35 on 22/03/13

  

  Dalston businesses are being offered the opportunity to run temporary catering facilities in 10 of the boroughs parks and green spaces.  Between June and November 2013 temporary mobile catering facilities will be trialled in: Haggerston Park, Well St Common, Millfields, Mark St Garden, Hackney Road Recreation Ground and Homerton Grove. From June 2013 to April 2014 catering facilities will be also be trialled at Shoreditch...

• Baroness visits Stoke Newington School

  By poppy_smith at 11:23 on 13/03/13

  

  Baroness Lola Young, a peer who sits in the House of Lords, recently visited Stoke Newington School (SNS). Members of the SNS students' House of Lords and House of Commons attended as well as AS and A2 politics students. The atmosphere in the resource centre was electric as pupils awaited the arrival of the baroness, and she didn't disappoint. Questions from the students clearly startled the baroness, and that just goes to show the...

• Trading Standards warn against unsafe skin products medicines in Dalston

  By poppy_smith at 11:47 on 09/03/13

  

  Hackney Council is advising residents to steer clear of unlicenced medicines as they are potential health risk and illegal skin lightening products as they contain dangerous banned substances that are harmful to the skin. During a visit to Obaako, 118 Ridley Road, earlier this year Trading Standards officers confiscated illegal prescription drugs including Penicillin, Ampicillin and Amoxicillin. Skin lightening products Caro Light,...

• Council claims budget will protect frontline services in Dalston

  By poppy_smith at 09:51 on 03/03/13

  

  The £1.1billion budget which this year includes funding for public health for the first time, will be spent on essential services including education, crime reduction, housing, adults and children's care, refuse collection, parks and green spaces, and recycling.  This is despite government cuts that have seen £82 million taken out of the Council's budget over four years, including this financial year.   ...

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