Opera & Dance

A CHARITY has pledged to provide a “trophy venue” for young athletes after councillors agreed the £750,000 sale of a neglected 16-acre municipal playing field last week.

Pictured from left: Simon Pitkeathley of Camden Town Unlimited, Neil Chivers of LD Communications, Robert ­Rosenberg of Trinifold Management, film director Nick Mason, Pauline Carroll of NME, the Walk

THE interception of a kilo of cocaine disguised in a rice steamer sent from Bolivia led to a man being jailed for 8 years today (Wednesday).

IT'S playtime in Kentish Town, with the opening of a new 'natural' play area designed specifically for 8 to 13 year olds.

Meg Matthews got busy with the fizzy this afternoon (Wednesday) as she popped into the new SodaStream bar in Parkway, Camden Town.

POLICE clashed with academics, staff and students of London Metropolitan University outside its headquarters in Moorgate yesterday (Tuesday).

THEY'VE performed sell-out concerts all over the world and sold more than 450,000 records, the perfect answer to anybody who claims classical group, the Mediaeval Baebes, are only really known for the

A man from Kentish Town who left a secretary crippled in a horrific knife attack has been jailed for nine and a half years.

Conservative parliamentary candidate Chris Philp has commissioned two billboards promoting his campaign in what is thought to be an unprecedented move to impress voters.

By TOM FOOT from the High Court

A CHRISTIAN marriage registrar Lillian Ladele who was threatened with the sack after she refused to “marry” gay couples has lost her appeal in the High Court.

Undercover drugs squad detectives who trailed cars from Finsbury Park and across the Thames to London Bridge discovered that the drivers were involved in drugs racket.

A CITY trader is due to face a jury trial over the death of a businessman who remained in a coma for 18 months.

Islington South MP Emily Thornberry has claimed her vote is "hardening" and suggested she would be happy for the nation to go to the polls within the next three months.

THE Liberal Democrats have set up a new office in Camden Town - and celebrated with a party last week.

PLANS to set up a 'banding' system of admissions into Camden's secondary schools have abandoned after the Town Hall failed to convince all schools it was a good idea.