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Islington Tribune - NEWS
Published: 25 September 2009

£2M BLOCK OF FLATS FACES DEMOLITION

Developer told to bulldoze homes after planning appeal fails

DEMOLITION looms for a new £2million block of flats in King’s Cross after the developer failed to stick to his original plans. > more

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Harvest time for the pear trees that escaped the axe
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Poles apart: Is this titillation or art form to keep you fit?
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MP’s post protest hits a brick wall
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Traders left on the road to ruin
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Mum: I pray for return of my missing son

THE distraught mother of a Holloway teenager who mysteriously disappeared more than a year ago appealed this week: “Please find my son".
Accountancy student Alexander Sloley, 17, went missing on the way home from a friend’s house in Edmonton on August 2 last year. He had little money... > more

Call for council contracts inquiry - LEASEHOLDERS and taxpayers have called for a public inquiry after builders with council contracts worth more than £700m... > more

Have a butchers at this renovation! - MORE than 650 people visited a lovingly restored butcher’s shop in Upper Holloway at the weekend. > more

Finsbury Centre campaign makes an appeal to history - ITS members were forced into exile by General Franco during the Spanish Civil War – many died on the... > more

War heroes to be fast-tracked for housing - WAR heroes who were injured or disabled in the line of duty are being fast-tracked for council housing in Islington... > more

Kids’ novelist urges boycott of SATs exams - CHILDREN’S novelist and poet Michael Rosen has urged teachers to boycott SATs next year unless the government... > more

Campaigners for pedestrian footbridge slam ‘lack of vision’ - THE campaign for a pedestrian footbridge across King’s Cross station has received a new blow... > more

‘Last chance saloon’ pulls plug on DJs - A POPULAR dance venue, threatened with the loss of its licence because of fighting and theft, is to become a traditional... > more

Shooting appeal 3 years on - THE parents of a man gunned down in a King’s Cross nightclub have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses on the third anniversary... > more

Family affair Publisher shakes off surgery for uncle’s do - FOR busy Barbican publisher Michael Chambers, hosting a book signing for his 89-year-old uncle was... > more

Hidden histories revealed - BLACK History Month kicks off with an afternoon of fun tomorrow (Saturday). > more

End of the Empire - HISTORIC variety theatre Hackney Empire is to close in January amid severe financial difficulties. > more

While the car’s away... The people will chat, snooze and play - A BUSY main road at Angel was cleared of traffic and transformed into a quiet grassy oasis... > more