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TOP LAWYER KEEPS LID ON SECRET FILE
Town Hall bans information leaks on controversial portfolio sell-off
ISLINGTON’S top lawyer has banned the publication of information about the methods used by a private developer to price up 223 under-threat properties.
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Pentonville prison slammed by report
INMATES at Pentonville prison are living in “endemic squalor and poverty”, according to a report released yesterday (Thursday).
The Victorian prison, in Caledonian Road, Holloway, is infested with rats and cockroaches, say the prison’s Independent Monitoring Board. > more |
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Drivers attack parking on Facebook - IRATE motorists are using the Facebook website to post angry rants about Islington’s parking attendants. > more
Drugs gang feud fears after shooting - A SUSPECTED gang feud culminated in a shooting on an Archway estate on Monday night. > more
Protest priest: My days in prison - A CATHOLIC priest has spoken for the first time about being jailed for daubing anti-Iraq war slogans on the walls of... > more
Cyclists toast pub where they can park their bikes - DRINKERS at an Angel organic pub can now enjoy carbon neutral boozing, thanks to a... > more
Lorries will turn street into ‘death-trap’, objectors warn - A FINSBURY rat-run will become “a death-trap” if developers are allowed to build on... > more
Minister salutes improving pupils - RESULTS in primary school tests are improving faster in Islington than the national rate. > more
City farm on alert - PRECAUTIONS against foot-and-mouth disease are being taken at a city farm in Holloway after last week’s outbreak in Surrey. > more
Blackspot claims another victim - A 63-YEAR-OLD man was left with serious spinal injuries on Friday afternoon after a collision at a notorious... > more
Crime hotline relaunched - A HOTLINE has been set up to help people in council properties whose lives are blighted by anti-social behaviour. > more
Shakespearean actors exit, pursued by a goose - NOT too many ducks know their Shakespeare, sadly, but the mallards at Freightliners Farm in... > more
Family cut out of car - A FAMILY were cut from the mangled wreckage of their car after a three-vehicle pile-up in Finsbury Park. > more
Meek in the movies - PART of Holloway Road stepped back to the 1960s last weekend for a film about legendary record producer Joe Meek. > more
Bottle attack on newsagent - A NEWSAGENT needed stitches after being hit over the head with a bottle in a robbery in Newington Green on Saturday night. > more
Deaf link up to GPs - A HIGH-TECH internet system that uses a web camera link-up will bring deaf patients face-to-face with their GPs. > more
Family anguish at suicide mystery - A FATHER-of-two who killed himself in his cousin’s home has left his family baffled about the motive, an inquest heard. > more
Bulldozers move in as tenants welcome £40m estate revamp - DEMOLITION has begun at a Holloway estate that became a haven for drug dealers... > more
Hunt for £2m as couple are jailed - INVESTIGATORS are hoping to claw back up to £2 million secreted away in Nigerian bank accounts by a couple... > more
White, middle-class parents find God, and a school place - GOD might be infinite in his wisdom, but can he tell the true believers from those earning... > more
Assault victims chased into pub - VICTIMS of a street attack were pursued into a Finsbury pub on Wednesday evening. > more
Peace campaigner’s message of hope - LABOUR MP Jeremy Corbyn introduced speakers at a moving ceremony on Monday to remember victims... > more
March for peace - CAMPAIGNERS are to urge youths to shun knives and guns during a Peace Week next month. > more
A star is re-born… as Garland Gets Happy in Debbie’s show - AGED just 23, Debbie Saloman is incredibly young to be filling the shoes of a... > more
Being for the benefit of Mr Kite - YOUNG kite-makers took over Paradise Park in Holloway on Wednesday afternoon. > more
Gulp! Boris lashes out at cowardly little bike fiends - BORIS Johnson has vented his anger over the theft of his beloved bicycle after he left it chained... > more
Memorial for V2 victims moves closer - A MEMORIAL for 110 workers, women and children who died in a V2 rocket attack on Smithfield Market in... > more |
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