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Published: 3 September, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
HANG up the flags, roll out the bunting and bring on the tea and cakes – because residents at Liverpool Road estate in Highbury are about to...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
THE owner of a drinks store – close to the spot where teenager Ben Kinsella was murdered – won the praise of objectors when he agreed this...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
A RETIRED accountant from Angel and her two grandchildren are to star in a show on Sunday in front of rail travellers at St Pancras International Station...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
EXCLUSIVE by TOM FOOT
THE Finsbury Health Centre has been saved from closure.
Councillors told a meeting at the Town Hall last night (Thursday) the battle to save...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
CAMIDOC is on the brink of collapse following a Robert Maxwell-style pension fund manoeuvre that forced health bosses to drop the out-of-hours doctors co-...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
A PLAQUE is set to be unveiled for the founder of Islington’s flagship Sobell Centre which narrowly survived demolition just last year.
The event...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
NHS campaigners are calling on Lib Dems to oppose the coalition government’s health reforms.
The Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition (DWHC)...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
THE future of Holloway Prison has been put in doubt after it was placed under a government review following a snap inspection.
A report, following an...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
TOWN Hall chiefs could take a lead role in organising campaigns and protest marches to name and shame firms that fail to pay staff a fair wage.
An...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB and RICHARD OSLEY
THE Town Hall is ready to hike the salary of a council official who works exclusively to help the Labour Party.
Under...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
THE reality of Islington’s housing crisis, with desperate families sharing overcrowded homes and children having to sleep on settees, is revealed by...
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Published: 3 September, 2010
by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
THE panel which found a pathologist guilty of misconduct after he failed to spot signs of abuse on a five-year-old Islington girl, will reveal this...
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Published: 2 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
THE Royal Free and Whittington hospitals could be forced to merge if Conservative reforms to the NHS are approved, a council report has said.
Health Secretary...
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Published: 2 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
A CHARITY worker who underwent “radical surgery” has written a hard-hitting book that she hopes will help others coping with chronic disease...
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Published: 2 September, 2010
by TOM FOOT
A SICK baby born prematurely at University College London hospital died after contracting a rare superbug.
Four babies were infected with the “gram...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
AN independent panel yesterday (Thursday) began final deliberations in the case of a pathologist who failed to spot signs of abuse on a five-year-old...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by PETER GRUNER
THEIR smiling faces graced the front cover of a glossy Islington Council promotional magazine. The Holloway couple even took tea with former mayor Anna...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by TOM FOOT and PETER GRUNER
IT was another record-breaking year for Islington schoolchildren.
For the first time in decades, GCSE results moved above the national average....
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Published: 27 August 2010
by TOM FOOT
A HISTORIC housing block for single women faces the threat of demolition and the eviction of its tenants, some of them vulnerable.
Southern Housing has asked...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by PETER GRUNER
HOMELESS rough sleeper and “King of the Road” Peter Pickles is on the final leg today (Friday) of a 70-mile walk for an Islington- based charity...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by TOM FOOT
THE not-for-profit group of doctors kicked out of Islington after asking for more funding to treat people on the NHS has launched a legal challenge to the...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by TOM FOOT
RIPPING up three sets of traffic lights in Islington could lead to a rise in accidents, Liberal Democrats have warned.
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
A “POPULAR and talented” graphic design student who was found dead by his housemates took his own life, an inquest heard.
Adam Laucht, 22, was...
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Published: 27 August 2010
by PETER GRUNER
A PRECIOUS wildlife garden in Upper Holloway, carefully nurtured by residents for more than 20 years, could be bulldozed to make way for housing....
