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Headteacher Mary Gibson: Turn my school (Yerbury Primary) into an academy? Over my dead body!

Mary Gibson

Defiant reaction to government’s fast-track plans for borough’s outstanding schools

Published: 11 June, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB

End of an era as Foundry’s lost to ‘cold, soulless’ development

Tracey and Jonathan Moberly with Foundry staff

Banksy says plan to keep his work is like ‘demolishing the Tate and saving its ice cream van’

Published: 11 June, 2010
by JOSH LOEB

Dust storm brewing as health and safety proves a real pain in the back

Renovation work at Dawlish House. Inset: Debbie Lewis

Councillor dismisses builders’ claims as residents slam workers’ sloppy standards

Published: 11 June, 2010
by PETER GRUNER

John Hegley’s praise for Finsbury Park Library

Poet John Hegley ­entertains the ­mother and toddler group

‘Toddlers’ rhyme time makes my heart soar,’ says Islington poet 

Published: 11 June, 2010
by NORMANDIE HOCHE

Strike teachers’ ‘backing’

Union say inspector’s report confirms teachers’ fears over safety

Published: 11 Juhne, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB

Cybercandy sweetshop hit by shoplifters is forced to ban children

Published: 11 June, 2010
by JOSH LOEB

AN international sweetshop has been forced to ban children who are unaccompied by adult after being hit by shoplifters.

The Xtra Diary - a look at artist Alan Lowndes work

Coronation Street by Alan Lowndes

Published: 11 June, 2010

FLAT cap and whippet exile, partial to a pint of Tetley’s bitter, seeks a little piece of the North in London.