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Netherwood Day Centre faces fresh survival battle - Dementia patients and carers faced with closure plan

FAMILY carers with relatives suffering from dementia have been told celebrations over the saving of a treasured care centre may prove shortlived.

Safer Streets ... Please! - Kilburn Action pensioners group shoot film to highlight pavement perils

KOVE vice-chairwoman Phyllis Young and Molly Ormonde of Kilburn Action pensioner

A NEW film reveals “unsafe streets” in Camden Town are leaving pensioners fearful of leaving their homes. 

JML - The home-based product retailer that was part of shopping channel boom celebrates 25 years

JML - celebrating 25 years

A BUSINESSMAN who set up a firm in his Camden Town home’s basement and went on to sell 20 million ironing board covers is celebrating 25 years of his company.

Comedian Alexi Sayle opens Somers Town Festival of Cultures

Comedian Alexi Sayle opens Somers Town Festival of Cultures

EVEN comedian Alexei Sayle couldn’t keep the hordes away from the festivities on Saturday when he opened the Somers Town Festival of Cultures.

Prince Albert statue blamed for road accidents at Holborn Circus

The statue at Holborn Circus

WITH his hat perennially tipped towards passers-by, he exudes regal good manners.

Property News: Councillors urged to resist cashing in on development of Holly Lodge estate’s homes

Holly Lodge residents

THE Holly Lodge housing estate in Highgate faces a crunch decision over how many new homes will be available for social housing in a multi-million-pound redevelopment of seven blocks.

Feature: SCHOOL'S OUT! - Holiday Activities To Help Keep The Kids Happy Over Summer

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EXPLORING the north London canal network used to be a question of strolling down towpaths, avoiding potholes and trying to ignore the litter and rubbish floating past.

Books: Review - Too Much Trouble. By Tom Avery

IMAGINE being sent abroad, away from your parents, as a child. Imagine fleeing a war in your home country, with a sibling to look after.

Feature: Interview - Diana Athill Talks To Matthew Lewin

AN extraordinary life of writing, publishing, love affairs and one shattering disappoin­tment was outlined by Diana Athill at a Lifelines evening at Burgh House on Thursday.

FORUM - New Journal editor Eric Gordon reflects on a week that saw two newspapers suddenly cease publication

News Of The World, Camden Gazette and Rupert Murdoch

Readers are left the forgotten mourners when newspapers die without warning

I LAMENT the death knell that rang for two newspapers on Thursday – one for the terminally diagnosed News of the World, the other for Camden Gazette, whose print version was killed off &ndash

Feature: The Schools Histories Collection In The Main Library Of The IOE

A REMARKABLE archive of primary and secondary school histories has opened to the public in the Institute of Education, Bloomsbury.

What’s this? A happy union of church and politics?

Banners outside the cathedral

I WENT somewhere on Saturday where Ed Miliband feared to tread – the Durham Miners Gala.

And I couldn’t for the life of me understand what Miliband was afraid of.

A-listers line up for Brighton

Illtyd Harrington
Daniel Craig

WHO will be on the A list for our literary editor Illtyd Harrington’s 80th birthday in Brighton this weekend?

Curiosity about the Cat

DOES any reader know why the corner site of Kingsway College in Gray’s Inn Road, King’s Cross, was once known as Cat’s Meat Square?