Hackney Council's planning sub committee on 10 March granted planning permission for proposals to develop 117 Wilton Way, London E8 1BH. The Hackney Empire currently owns the building and will now sell it to the developers. It had been relying on this income to help with its financial difficulties.

London Overground, North London line as was, has shut four Hackney stations - Dalston Kingsland, Hackney Central, Homerton and Hackney Wick - for engineering works, and they will not re-open until 31 May

The extensively refurbished and restored Clapton Library, located at the eastern end of Northwold Road, re-opened on 15 February and will have its formal opening at a public event on Monday 22 February.

In February 1910, Winston Churchill visited Hackney's first ever Labour Exchange. To coincide with this anniversary, Hackney Museum is hosting a commemorative exhibition.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month is being held throughout the UK and Ireland during February.

N16mag.com along with N16 Magazine were invited by Hackney Council on 22 January to take photographs of the interior of the splendidly redecorated and refurbished Stoke Newington Town Hall and Assembly Rooms on Church Street. On 4 February N16 Magazine interviewed Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe and Deputy Mayor Karen Alcock (picture below) about a number of local issues, including the Assembly Rooms and Town Hall, and the interview will be published in the next issue of the magazine, available across Stoke Newington and neighbouring areas on 6 March.

Hackney Council has revealed its plans for what it describes as 'Hackney's two major town centres' (ie Hackney Central and Dalston, so where does this leave Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, Broadway Market?). The 'masterplans' are for the next fifteen years and are extremely detailed, so much so that we are simply here reproducing an edited version of the Council press release, along with website links to the documents themselves.

Stoke Newington-based Movingeast is looking for young people interested in dance, and who are aged between 11 and 14 years, to apply for its free Centre for Advanced Training dancing course.

The Hackney Winter Night Shelter has been running for 15 years. It operates from a different church hall in the Borough each night of the week and is a stalwart of the raft of organisations providing much needed services to vulnerable people in the winter months.

Four members of an IRA active service unit who waged a 14-month bombing campaign in the mid-1970s, leaving in their wake 40 explosions and 35 dead, lived in what was described as a 'bomb factory' in Stoke Newington's Milton Grove.