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Published: 9 November 2007

‘GIVE ME DRUG SO I CAN SEE MY KIDS
GROW UP’

Cancer patient pleads for £100,000-a-year life-saving treatment

FRIENDS and family are campaigning for a cancer patient to be given a life-saving drug which doctors have told him is too... > more

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Choice cuts
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It’s full steam ahead for new age of the train
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Tree lover stops the axe falling
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Arsenal urged to foot bill for grass their fans trampled
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Heritage fights Smithfield butchers’ block

THE start of a public inquiry into controversial plans to develop Smithfield Market developed into a battle this week.
The market’s butchers are at loggerheads with English Heritage over a plan to demolish the derelict General Market building, much loved by conservationists. > more

£3,000 bill for council boss trip - ISLINGTON Council has defended plans to use £3,000 of public funds to fly chief executive Helen Bailey to South Africa for a 10-day... > more

‘We’ll take kids out of school if their playgroundis sold off’ - FURIOUS parents have threatened to take their children out of a primary school after it won planning... > more

Voice of Homer in King’s Head play - HIS voice can be heard from Tahiti to Timbuctoo, but for the next four weeks the true form of Homer Simpson can be found... > more

Going... going... another antiques arcade - CAMDEN Passage antiques market suffered a new blow this week with the shock announcement that the popular... > more

Estate campaigners told: You can have playground back - AN estate is to get a new playground to replace one that shut seven years ago. > more

Drinker aims to sip his way into record books - IT began as a visit to a City church – and turned into a pub crawl of epic proportions. > more

Views from the secret world of our buses’ top decks - EVER sat upstairs in a double-decker bus driving through the capital and been amazed at the extraordinary... > more

Grandson to read extracts from war veteran’s diary on Remembrance Day - A 12-year-old Archway schoolboy will read from his late grandfather’s moving war... > more

Casting vote pushes through ‘canyon’ flats amid protests - A MASSIVE development of shops, flats and offices in the heart of Finsbury has won planning approval... > more

Knifing victim ‘stood up to chip-thrower’ - A GRIEVING woman has again publicly relived the moment her boyfriend was fatally knifed on a bus by a “laughing” stranger. > more

Police raid shuts crack house - POLICE have closed down a suspected crack house in an early-morning raid in Angel. > more

‘Wheels off floor, so I won’t pay fine’ - A BIKER barrister whose bid to have a test case heard at the House of Lords was thrown out last week says he expects to... > more

Youths sparks chaos aiming fireworks at children - YOUTHS caused mayhem across the borough on Bonfire Night, setting off fireworks in shops and firing them... > more

Schools’ budget penalty scrapped - HEADTEACHERS ac ross Islington are breathing a sigh of relief after plans to claw back millions from their budgets were... > more

The heat of bodies, the smells… and just a doll for comfort as bombs fell in streets above Tube station - MEMORIES of the Blitz flooded back for Roz Tankard... > more