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A JUDGE has detained a man suffering from schizophrenia under the Mental Health Act after he admitted punching Leona Lewis in a West End bookshop.

A PIANO teacher and tennis coach who struggled with depression drowned in the River Thames after going missing from his West Hampstead home, an inquest heard.

AN Old Bailey judge has warned that night time assaults on the notorious night bus routes through Camden Town will be dealt with severely by the courts.

THE fight is on to Save Our Whittington.

THERE was a huge wave of sympathy and support this week for nine-year-old Bailey who watched in terror as masked youths ransacked his home.

A WIDOW has launched a last-minute bid through the Tribune to track down her ex-husband’s long-lost brothers in time for his funeral next Friday.

UNDER-FIRE governors at London Metropolitan University are refusing to obey calls from government bosses to quit – despite fears the stand-off could lead to its closure.

PARTY leaders from Islington Council joined dozens of demonstrators on Monday in a protest about a notorious accident black spot in Holloway Road, Highbury.

TWO rising rap stars who planned to drown a pregnant schoolgirl were jailed on Friday for a total of 32 years for their “evil deeds”.

THE decision to close Finsbury Health Centre was based on “inaccurate and artificially inflated” refurbishment costs and would damage health care provision, a council report has found.

PROPERTY developers will use the words of Islington’s own planning officers to appeal against the council’s refusal to allow the demolition of Clerkenwell’s landmark Turnmill building.

MP EMILY Thornberry met two Somali women’s groups at a celebration of the Eid al-Adha Festival on the Bemerton estate in Islington.

THE fiancée of a carpenter crushed to death on a building site has launched a High Court bid for £1million compensation.

A MAN was found bludgeoned to death in his Holloway flat after agreeing to take part in a drugs scam, an Old Bailey jury has heard.

A DISUSED Underground station is the key to keeping Islington’s renewable energy plans on track, according to one councillor.