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I went to celebrate the new concessionary bus travel bill at Hackney Community Transport. The bill allows for everyone aged 60 plus and disabled people to travel off-peak for free anywhere in England from April 2008.

Hackney Community Transport have been transporting Hackney residents for 24 years, including running the…

Hackney’s school children are to get a cash boost from the government. Every primary school in Hackney is to get an extra £200 per pupil and every secondary school an extra £225 per pupil, the Chancellor Gordon Brown announced yesterday.

In his pre-budget report on Wednesday, the Chancellor has promised…

It is estimated that one person in the UK becomes infected with HIV every 70 minutes. This is a live issue for many Hackney residents and I will be supporting World AIDs Day 2006.

The Extradition Act governs how Britain requests and obtains the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal from another nation and vice versa.

The 2003 Act itself applies not only to the US, but to all our extradition partners. Some 47 other countries have exactly the same agreement with us.…

Hackney residents are being urged to recycle old phones for use in Africa. At least 3 out of 4 of us own a mobile phone and every hour 1712 mobile phones are upgraded in the UK alone.

If all mobile-users in the UK threw their old phones in the bin…