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Published: 8 August 2008

MP CALLS FOR PROBE INTO CARE DEATHS

Care home manager suspended after woman left dead in bed for 3 days

ISLINGTON North MP Jeremy Corbyn called for a public inquiry this week into the “medieval” way elderly people in a private care home were left dead in their beds for days. > more

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Young and angry? Step in the ring and sort it out
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Record £365,000 payout to man crushed by school bus
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Homes for families on the waiting list
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Political war of words over sex and ‘innuendo’

RIVAL councillors are involved in a war of words amid claims the leader of the Labour group at the Town Hall made fun of a Lib Dem chief for being gay.
The row has been wrapped up in secrecy and nobody will spell out exactly what Councillor Catherine West is actually alleged to... > more

Youth clubs ‘stuck in table tennis past’ - POLICE who are on the front-line in the battle against crime have called for more clubs to keep marauding teen agers off... > more

Weapons in schools up 300% - A KNUCKLE duster, replica guns, air rifles, knives and fireworks are among almost 100 weapons found in Islington schools in the... > more

Rubbish ‘snoops’ cause outrage - THE row over Islington Council’s “rubbish snoopers ” blew up again this week after residents demanded to know whether dustbin... > more

Heritage groups win campaign to save market from butchers’ block - HERITAGE campaigners yesterday (Thursday) won their epic fight to save Smithfield... > more

Sisters, such devoted sisters... for a century - THESE are the four ages of Islington’s celebrated Watling sisters, believed to be the borough’s oldest siblings. > more

Prison conditions a ‘disgrace to society’ - CONDITIONS at Pentonville prison are described as ‘a disgrace to an affluent society’ in a damning report... > more

Politician ‘owes his life’ to his cycle helmet and speed hump - COUNCIL deputy leader Terry Stacy has told how a speed hump saved his life after he was left with... > more

Arts college in move to other side of tracks - IT will cost the equivalent of two Picassos and a Jackson Pollock to move one of the world’s best known arts colleges... > more

Greens attack plans to ‘bury sports centre among homes’ - PLANS to rebuild Islington’s flagship Sobell Centre in Finsbury Park were described this... > more

‘Pimp My Ride’ DJ to add a touch of bling to police van - HE’S a controversial rap DJ who was once the victim of a drive-by shooting but now Radio 1’s Tim... > more

Boris’s Holloway makes up part of walking tour - ONE of the first walking tours of Islington taking in the home of London Mayor Boris Johnson, is being... > more

Festival first - HUNDREDS are expected to attend the first Blackstock Road festival on Sunday. > more

Paid to ‘stay at home’ - THE Town Hall has spent nearly half a million pounds in payments to suspended council staff and on settlements, the Tribune can reveal. > more