Opera & Dance

THE Town Hall’s personnel boss has been suspended on full pay from her £100,000 post amid claims of bullying and financial mismanagement, writes Róisín Gadelrab.

MEET Pretty Polly, the parrot fish who has been making waves at Paul Christodoulou’s fishmonger’s shop in Holloway this week.

A FORMER barrister who set up a home delivery service to support Highbury’s struggling small shops has been so successful that she has rolled out the scheme across the borough.

WITH a Jewish mother and a Zimbabwean father, Kaya Makarau Schwartz believes she may have the perfect credentials to stand for Labour in the local elections in Archway’s multi-cultural Junction ward.

CITY Road Basin, a neglected backwater which for years has been virtually inaccessible, opened to the public for the first time on Sunday.

CUDDLY sheep, fluffy ducks and sparkly angels, there was room for everyone at Islington primary schools’ Nativ­ity and Christmas plays this year.

Pictured: James Pounal, who was found bludgeoned to death

A DISTRAUGHT father turned killer to halt a sickening baby trafficking racket, a court was told this week.

Downing Street has confirmed that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken to the Chinese government over the fate of a Kentish Town man facing the death penalty.

THE Royal Free Hospital says its up and running again after an electrical fault cut off part of the Hampstead hospital's power and caused a shutdown on Tuesday.

There was heavy snowfall in north London this evening (Tuesday) as the odds on a white Christmas were slashed. Large snowflakes settled on the ground across Islington.

1. Essex Road, Islington.. Sent in by Councillor Lucy Watt
2. Essex Road, Islington.. Sent in by Councillor Lucy Watt
3. Cummings Estate, Islington.. Sent in by Councillor Lucy Watt

Heavy snowfall across north London turned Camden into a picturesque Christmas card scene on Tuesday night - but there were complaints this morning (Wednesday) that ungritted roads and pavements had le

Here's a not so silent Knight... Environment chief Councillor Chris Knight poses at the Town Hall with all the things you can recycle after Christmas, even the traditional tree behind him.

Pictured: How the new extension will look

THE decision to allow the British Museum to build a £135 million extension must be subject to a public inquiry, furious conservation groups say.