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‘Temp’ is paid more than Westminster Council chief executive Mike More - Finance ministers accused of "throwing money away"

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM FINANCE bosses at City Hall have been accused of “throwing money away”, after it emerged a temp...
Warning after Soho alley rapes - Falconberg Mews area sealed off by Met Police

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM POLICE have sealed off a Soho alleyway and distributed hundreds of rape alarms after two sex attacks in the...
Police hold 18 men in second raid on house for immigration offences

Published: 30 April, 2010 by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS POLICE battered down the front door of a house in Finsbury Park and arrested 18 men for...
Star booking - Jann Parry takes top prize at Theatre Book Prize award ceremony

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM WEST End stars were at the Drury Lane Theatre on Tuesday – not to tread the boards, but to present a...
Stick with it! Artist’s hospital message - Artist Ben Wilson Celebrates Victory by Painting on Chewing gum outside Whittington Hospital

Published: 30 April, 2010 ARTIST Ben Wilson celebrated the victory of the Save the Whittington campaign this week (see page 1) and called on...
ELECTION 2010 - Foreign Secretary David Miliband: Tory Joanne Cash would 'short-change electorate’ - Tale of two campaigns in Westminster North

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM IT was a tale of two campaigns in Westminster North this week: in St John’s Wood Joanne Cash cut...
ELECTION 2010 - Drumming up support - Blur band member Dave Rowntree hits streets for Labour Party in safe Conservative seat

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM POLITICAL pamphlets aren’t known for their searing honesty. But Blur drummer and Labour candidate in...
Free Islington school meals scheme in doubt - Just weeks after Ed Balls pledges cash, Town Hall is warned election could scupper plans

Published: 30 April, 2010 by ROISIN GADELRAB LABOUR’S controversial plan to give free school meals to every pupil in the borough has been...
NURSERIES: 'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE' - Labour's Karen Buck in warning over secret Tory top-up fee proposals - Conservative rival Joanne Cash condemns remarks as “scaremongering”.

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM KAREN Buck has warned that secret Tory plans to allow nurseries to charge top-up fees would create a two-...
£14bn cost of private NHS

Published: 30 April, 2010 by TOM FOOT CUTTING ties with private companies would save the NHS billions and plug a massive shortfall in funding...
Islington music teacher Becky Whitlam beats Complex Regional Pain Syndrome to run London marathon

Published: 30 April, 2010 EIGHT years ago, Islington music teacher Becky Whitlam could not walk, let alone run – but on Sunday she defied...
ELECTION 2010: Lib Dem local candidates say they are ready to ‘make history’

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM THERE is a joke that the only way for a Liberal Democrat to get inside Marylebone Town Hall’s council...
ELECTION 2010 - No love lost as rivals go head-to-head in Emmanuel church hall, Harrow Road

Published: 30 April 2010 by JAMIE WELHAM A PACKED Emmanuel church hall in the Harrow Road saw Karen Buck and her Conservative rival Joanne Cash go...
Style guru joins Beaux Arts fight - Carole Caplin Ex-advisor to Cherie Blair warns that flats plan will ‘destroy unique building’

Published: 30 April, 2010 by PETER GRUNER Lifestyle guru Carole Caplin is backing the battle against plans to “shoehorn” flats and...
Health News - Penelope’s fight to care for ex-boxer Parkinson’s sufferer husband, Carl

Published: 30 April, 2010 by JOSIE HINTON WHEN Penelope Lloyd-Newman wakes up in the morning she only has to listen to the sound of her husband...
The Xtra Diary - Robert Lenkiewicz's Study of Bianca back in frame

Published: 30 April, 2010 A PAINTER Diary has long admired, Robert Lenkiewicz, still makes the tabloids although he died eight years ago. Now, one of...
The Xtra Diary - Step outside… it’s gone beyond a joke

Published: 29 April, 2010 It might have started out as an April Fool, but the Guardian’s “Step Outside Posh Boy” slogan has...
The Xtra Diary - London Mayor Boris Johnson a dead cert to make new chums!

Published: 30 April, 2010 Is Boris Johnson having a punt on the election? Well not quite – the Mayor of London, popped into the Coral...

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