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Supporters celebrate as Sam Hallam is released from prison after serving 7 years for crime he didn't commit

Sam Hallam is greeted by friends outside the Lion and Lamb pub, off Old Street, shortly after his release from prison Published: 16 May, 2012 by TOM...
School under fire for academy proposal that critics say is 'motivated by prestige'

The Bridge School in Hungerford Road, Holloway Published: 11 May, 2012 by ANDREW JOHNSON HEADTEACHERS and governors of two schools are at...
Legal row over 'ill-thought-out' re-naming of historic Islington Green and man who 'made the decision'

Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER and ANDREW JOHNSON THE row over the “ill-thought-out” re-naming of historic Islington Green...
Newly-elected councillor reveals how her mother 'taught me what women are capable of when pushed’

Holloway councillor Rakhia Ismail: ‘We really struggled’ Published: 11 May, 2012 by PAVAN AMARA WHEN she was 11, Rakhia Ismail fled...
Labour’s Rakhia Ismail storms to victory at Holloway by-election - and there's an Assembly boost for the Tories and the Greens

Victor Rakhia Ismail, centre, with, from left, councillors Richard Watts, Richard Greening, council leader Catherine West and councillor Paul Smith...
Jilani Chowdhury becomes Islington's new Mayor, 20 years after arriving from Bangladesh
'Shop a dropper': £80 on-the-spot fines for dog walkers who don't clean up after their pets

Terna Jukwey, far left, with Cllr Paul Smith and dog-squad colleagues Published; 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER LAW graduate Terna Jukwey, 25, knows...
OUR NEIGHBOURS: Who’s been making the news round your way this week?

Love stopped traffic on Saturday evening as Louise Stevens and Selvin Cooper celebrated their wedding. They were joined by brass marching band...
New lorry-ban road layout close to home of Arsenal FC leaves drivers, cyclists and pedestrians ‘totally confused’

Concerned residents Caroline Russell, John Ackers and Paul Standeven Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER A NEW lorry-ban scheme in the shadow...
Ford Madox Brown relative joins campaign to clean up Pre-Raphaelite artist’s grave

A self-portrait of Ford Madox Brown dating from 1850 Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER THE great-great-grandson of Victorian Pre-Raphaelite...
'Go it alone' Highbury Roundhouse gets £300k cash boost from Heritage Lottery fund

Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER HIGHBURY Roundhouse, which boldly refused help from a property developer in order to launch its own £1...
A DOCTOR WRITES...Dr Benedict Smith on Hay Fever - advice that's not to be sneezed at!

This week, Dr Benedict Smith discusses Hay Fever Published: 11 May, 2012 HAVE you ever noticed Tiger Woods’ eyes watering as he searches for...
OBITUARY: Sister Mac was 'always kind and thoughtful' - Death of Mary Immaculate Purcell

Sister Mac, left, with her friend and colleague, Sister Theophane Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER ALWAYS kind and thoughtful, Sister Mac,...
Council is denied chance to appeal against tribunal decision to reduce charges for leaseholders

Published: 11 May, 2012 by PETER GRUNER IN an extraordinary rebuff, Islington Council has been refused leave to appeal against a landmark decision...
City of London Academy 'could be violating pupils' human rights' over mobile phone confiscations

Published: 11 May, 2012 CITY of London Academy Islington is embroiled in a legal row over its new tough policy of not handing back confiscated...
It's Ladies' Day at the Emirates, as Gillespie and St John pupils report from the Arsenal press box

Arsenal Ladies midfielder Jordan Nobbs with, from left, Francesca Kyriak and Henry Massey of Gillespie School, and Martha Cheek, Yasmin Thomas and...
Søren over the skyline - The rigger who helps Babel perfomers scale the clocktower in Caledonian Park

Søren Nielsen, of the Archway-based aerial theatre group Scarabeus Published: 11 May, 2012 SøREN Nielsen, of the Archway-based aerial...
Drinking pal of wheelchair user who was 'stabbed to death' appears at Old Bailey accused of murder

Published: 11 May, 2012 by DAVID St GEORGE OVER-indulging in alcohol is believed to have led to the violent death of a wheelchair user at his home...

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