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Published: 15 June 2007

FURY AT BIG BROTHER SEX SNOOP

Housing bosses demand database of tenants’ lives

HOUSING chiefs stand accused this week of wanting to snoop on residents by creating an Orwellian database detailing every facet of their lives – even their sexuality. > more

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Passengers flee stabbing on bus
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Our private gardens will be lost if flats get go-ahead’
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'We want a school that’s fair to all’
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Count backs calls to save precious antiques market
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A plane case of vandalism

FOR more than 100 years, the six distinctive 60-foot London plane trees graced the pavement in Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, seemingly untouched by the clouds of traffic pollution and the shudder of lorries.
This week, a team of contractors believed to be from Bovis unceremoniously axed the street trees, which were bequeathed by the Victorians in an effort to green the city. > more

Brothers attend special party for donors - A BROTHER who donated his kidney to save his sick sibling’s life was among 20 donors and recipients who... > more

Boris joins Emily in bid to save park - TORY MP Boris Johnson – who lives in Holloway – has signed an Early Day Labour motion in the Commons deploring... > more

Takeaway boss wants retrial - MAGISTRATES could order the retrial of a takeaway that was last week slapped with a record-breaking fine for fly-tipping. > more

Neighbourhood shops ‘beat the supermarkets’ - IF you want to save money you would be better popping round the corner to the shops than making a car... > more

Wheelchair-users back ‘life-saver’ post office - WHEELCHAIR users this week joined the growing campaign to save the threatened Essex Road post office... > more

Neighbours stub out pub’s late-night fags in garden - SMOKERS were at the centre of the Battle of the Beer Garden which erupted on Monday. > more

MP rips up ballot paper in anger at ‘unfair’ permits - ANGRY MP Emily Thornberry is so incensed ny a parking referendum she fears will give a raw deal to... > more

Masked knifeman preyed on lone women - A VIOLENT drug addict who wore a highwayman’s mask to rob women has been convicted of a series... > more

Great feat for Cowcross St - GROTTY and ragged Cowcross Street has been transformed into a “pedestrian paradise”. > more