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Published: 19 August, 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
SLASHED budgets will lead to fatalities on the Underground “sooner rather than later,” union officials have warned after a runaway train without...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
CONSERVATIVE activist Yvette Pathare is calling for cyclists to dismount in areas where large numbers of people are walking, including the Regent’s...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by JOSH LOEB
AS if the recession wasn’t enough of an introduction to the rigours of Austerity Britain for those of us who weren’t around at the time, the decade...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by DAVID ST GEORGE
A HUSBAND strangled his wife to death with one hand because she came home late from a family party, an Old Bailey jury heard this week.
School assistant...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
A MOTHER faces an agonising wait to hear if she will be reunited with her children after they were separated as she fled torture and rape...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
A FLY-TIPPER who illegally dumped unwanted tyres on private land in Islington has been jailed for four months.
Following a drawn-out...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
WHEN trainee teacher Megan Bowie was struck down with severe headaches and extreme dizziness she was rushed to hospital.
But the cause of her illness was...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
BUSINESS may not be booming but there are important signs of recovery in Islington’s shopping centres.
Significantly, loans are becoming more...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
A RETIRED warehouse worker who had in the past rescued two men from separate blazes died after a discarded incense stick set fire to his bed.
Robbie Allen,...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
CHILDREN in Islington are facing a disappointing future after the coalition government froze funding for 10 new playgrounds.
Ordering...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
A GOVERNMENT scheme to allow every school in the country to become an academy has been rejected wholeheartedly by Islington.
Labour...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
A PAIR of Spurs supporters who joined a mob smashing up a pub favoured by Arsenal fans have been jailed for 15 months and banned from...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
ISLINGTON’S housing chief, Labour Councillor James Murray, this week accused the Prime Minister of creating “fear and panic” among...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
THE photojournalist brother of a murdered teenager has been cleared of allegations that he broke strict rules about speaking to the jury...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
A PATHOLOGIST has claimed that marks of violence could not be found when he carried out an autopsy on the body of a five-year-old Islington girl at...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by JOSIE HINTON
AN investigation has been launched into the death of a prisoner who was left alone in a single room with a plastic bag and belt – despite being...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
OBJECTIONS to a plan by the Redhook restaurant in Finsbury to open until 2am have been submitted to Islington Council.
An application for extended hours will be heard by...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
TREE swings, den building and BMX challenges were all part of a fun day for hundreds of families at Highbury Fields.
Colourscape, a giant sensory tent that...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
FORMER Islington Mayor Anna Berent has raised a total of £28,000 for two local charities it was revealed this week.
Anna, 82, who stood...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by TOM FOOT
URGENT repairs must be made to crumbling Finsbury Health Centre before the winter, an English Heritage inspector has warned.
Mike Dunn will hand NHS Islington a...
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Published: 13 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
PLANS to pay Islington’s elected housing chairmen and women while reducing spending on the borough’s estates sparked a furious row this week....
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Published: 16 August, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB
AFRICAN dancing, music and good food marked the end of a £30million regeneration programme at Naish Court, off Caledonian Road.
As...
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Published: 12 August, 2010
by TOM FOOT
A SURVIVOR of the American atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 spoke of his “hope for peace” at a memorial event in Tavistock...
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Published: 06 August, 2010
by PETER GRUNER
ONE of the borough’s most influential businessmen and benefactors Paul Morris spoke out this week against plans to axe Islington’s popular...
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Published: 06 August, 2010
by TOM FOOT
HUNDREDS of GPs and NHS staff have been warned their jobs are on the line after Islington’s out-of-hours doctors contract was torn-up and awarded to a...
