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Published: 27 April 2007

Free chef, MP urges Pres. Bush

Man held at Guantanamo is innocent says MP Emily

ISLINGTON MP Emily Thornberry has appealed to President George Bush to intervene in the case of a Holloway chef who has been held as a terror... > more

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4x4 cop car chase ends in head-on-smash at lights
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Human rights lawyer advises doctors in campaign to save jobs
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Fourth stabbing sparks drug gang invasion fears
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Crash driver’s escape
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£90,000 poll ‘asks wrong questions’

Green call for referendum on property sale

ISLINGTON’S lone Green councillor Katie Dawson this week joined the outcry over the £90,000 Town Hall poll on whether sliding-scale parking charges should... > more

Backdown over Academy - ISLINGTON Council has climbed down from a costly and potentially embarrassing legal battle over a controversial new city.. > more

Nightclub in battle to keep licence - A POPULAR Tufnell Park pub and night club will fight to keep its license next week after angry residents – fed up with... > more

Tributes to man who drank lava lamp oil - FRIENDS have paid tribute to a father-of-two who died after drinking the oil from a lava lamp. > more

Pay rise for councillors - LIB Dem councillors in Islington – who already enjoy some of the highest allowances in the land – have voted for themselves a staggering... > more

Supermarket plan could be shelved over planning - WORK on a new supermarket in Archway may have to be put on hold after developers discovered that... > more

Festival returns to park - A FREE anti-racism festival is to be staged in Finsbury Park again this year, despite initial plans to move it to south London. > more

Final farewell to Sheila - THE funeral of a “glamorous” former opera singer and actress who was crushed under a lorry in Archway will be held on Wednesday. > more

Hit-and-run victim told he may never walk again - A HIT-AND-RUN driver who nearly killed a champion cyclist should search his soul and hand himself in, the injured... > more

Charity’s threat to move out after HQ plans snub - A LEADING national charity has threatened to quit Islington after its plans for a controversial 11-storey... > more

‘I was shot as I walked on estate’ - A MAN has described to a jury how he was shot from point-blank range when visiting a Finsbury Park estate. > more

MP supports dissident’s bid to return home - A BANGLADESHI dissident facing a murder charge was banned from flying home to clear her name on... > more

Gang turf war theory over double shooting - A DOUBLE shooting in Newington Green last week marks the latest escalation in a turf war between rival... > more

Sadler’s Wells gives hip-hop dance a break - INTERNATIONAL dance stars will lock, bop, break and pop all over the place with the return to Sadler’s... > more

In at the birth of a power struggle - WENDY Savage, the distinguished retired gynaecologist and champion of women’s rights in childbirth, launched... > more