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'Table surfer' mobile phone thief is banned from carrying newspapers or magazines into bars and cafés

Laura Anghel "caused misery to victims who were in bars or cafés enjoying themselves"

Published: 8 May, 2013

Investigation is launched as three are injured during fire that destroyed 7th-floor flat

Published: 7 May, 2013

THREE people were injured and hundreds of residents were evacuated last night (Monday) as fire destroyed a seventh-floor flat in Finsbury.

Cult Islington street artist Bambi is revealed to be a famous, and very mysterious, singer

Tribune reporter Peter Gruner investigates the ‘Bambi’ mystery

Tribune reporter Peter Gruner investigates the ‘Bambi’ mystery. The question is, who is Bambi?

Could it be (from left): Paloma Faith, Geri Halliwell or M.I.A?

(from left): Paloma Faith, Geri Halliwell or M.I.A
One of the artist’s pieces

One of the artist’s pieces

Published: 3 May, 2013
by PETER GRUNER

WHO is the mystery girl?

Family of Derek Boateng, the teenager who was stabbed to death on a bus on the day he celebrated his 16th birthday, tell of their ordeal

Pictures from the family album of Derek Boateng
Pictures from the family album of Derek Boateng
Derek Boateng
Derek Boateng

Pictures from the family album of Derek Boateng with his mother, Comfort, and sisters, Gifty and Josephine, and images of Derek, who lost his life after being fatally stabbed last week

Great-gran killed in car accident outside church

Published: 3 May, 2013
by PETER GRUNER
and TOSIN OLADEJI

Packed meeting hears how firefighters from station threatened with closure saved young boy from blaze

At the meeting to discuss the closure of Clerkenwell fire station

From left: Cllr Raphael Andrews, Cllr Steph Charalambous, Emily Thornberry, Cllr George Allan, Cllr Richard Greening and Greg Edwards

Published: 3 May, 2013

Council leader Catherine West sets her sights on Parliament and becomes the sixth from party to go for Westminster

Left: Catherine West ; right:Lynne Featherstone

Cllr West, (left), hopes to fight Lynne Featherstone, at the next General Election

Published: 3 May, 2013
by ANDREW JOHNSON

Foodbank to open new base as demand for help doubles

Events manager Mabinty Koroma with bags of food 

Events manager Mabinty Koroma with bags of food

Published: 3 May, 2013
by PETER GRUNER

Attack on 'hooligan' hospital campaigners is no indication of a split within party, say Labour

Cllr Martin Klute

Cllr Martin Klute denies there is a split in the Labour group – 'that is not the case'

Published: 3 May, 2013
by TOM FOOT

Exhibition celebrates glory years of cinema turned rock showcase

Bob Marley on stage

Above: Bob Marley on stage. Below: The Astoria opened as a cinema

The Astoria opened as a cinema
The Astoria opened as a cinema
The Rainbow in 1986 after its closure

The Rainbow in 1986