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Bus crash injury man found dead

A FORMER tower crane driver who was horrifically injured when he was run over by a bendy bus has been found dead at his Islington home....

Art show captures 40 years of estate memories

TOP sculptor Anthony Gormley joined 2,500 people who flocked to see an estate transformed into a massive work of art on Saturday....

‘Life-saving’ mental health project to end

A 'LIFE-SAVING' service providing support to families with a mentally ill parent will close this month due to a lack of funding....

'Satisfactory' school on 'path to success'

ONE of Islington's most challenging secondary schools is 'rapidly improving', according to government inspectors....

Teenager charged with murder of schoolgirl Jessie Wright, 16

A TEENAGER has been charged over the death of a 16-year-old schoolgirl....

Judges give disabled man hope in 'birth error' compensation battle

A MATHS genius who overcame the disabilities he was born with to win an Eton scholarship and a Cambridge University Ph.D has won a vital round in his fight for millions in compensation....

Cinema to host comedy nights

WE all know talking in the cinema is rude – just don t tell the top stand-up comedians coming to Islington s Screen On The Green....

Police appeal over last hours of dead teenager Jessie Wright

Detectives investigating the killing of a 16-year-old girl in Islington are appealing for information regarding her whereabouts up to 24 hours before her body was found....

Campaign may not be enough to save The Whittington Hospital, admit health chiefs

MASS opposition to the closure of The Whittington Hospital s accident and emergency department may not be enough to save it, health chiefs have admitted....

£4.5million worth of heroin seized from van

ONE hundred kilos of heroin with an estimated street value of £4.5million has been seized by police in Finsbury Park....

Letters

Health centre is on the best site

ISLINGTON Primary Care Trust PCT has been arguing for closure of Finsbury Health Centre and relocation of services away from the building, principally on grounds of financial viability, and also citing certain issues of fitness for purpose of the building...

Hospital march was a truly moving experience

THE Whittington march was something special. To march alongside so many people from across north London, united in defending our local hospital, was truly moving....

Our memories of The King’s Head

I USED to have the newsagents at 140 Upper Street in Islington before we emigrated to Australia and have fond memories of The King s Head Theatre....

Big difference in camera quality

I READ of the unfortunate chap who was stabbed in the face in Holloway (Gazette, February 25)....

Mission’s 150th anniversary

THIS year is the 150th anniversary of the founding of St Giles Christian Mission....

A family mystery...

MAY I be permitted space in your columns to ask if any of your readers can assist in solving a family mystery?...

Search for my father

PLEASE can anyone give me any information regarding Francis (Frank) Barry originally from Coom, Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, who is my father and who was living and working in the Islington area in the mid 1950s for various b...

A&E campaigners must take fight to the Government

IT is good news that all political parties locally, including Labour, are getting behind the campaign to save The Whittington Hospital in the run-up to Saturday's important community protest march....

We must do more to help support sex pest victims

I WAS very pleased to read that serial Tube groper, Colin Franklin had been jailed for three years (Gazette, February 18) and would like to congratulate British Transport Police on their great work....

Beware of Lib-Dem scaremongering

AS Islington s Liberal Democrats get increasingly desperate ahead of May s elections, they are escalating their scaremongering campaigns....

Sport

A walk in the Park for Sue

Sue Holt produced the run of the weekend for London Heathside, finishing second in the senior women s race of the Chingford Cross-Country League on Saturday. Holt clocked 31 minutes 31 seconds over the 8.4 kilometres at Trent Park. Johnny Naylor placed si...

Angel book their place in the final

WALTHAM FOREST & DISTRICT LEAGUE CUP Vicky Park 1 Angel Islington 2 Angel Under-12s produced their best performance of the season to knock out league leaders Vicky Park and reach the cup final for the second year running. Jack Madden and Tom Blissett were...

Don't dodge, Come Play

GYM sessions will never be the same again once a new sports and social club opens its doors to the Islington and Camden public next month. The Come Play Sport initiative hits the ground running during the first week in March, and organisers are calling on...

What's On

REVIEW: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG)....

REVIEW: CHLOE

DAISY COLLINS review CHLOE (15)....

REVIEW: LEGION

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews LEGION (15)....

REVIEW: THE SHOUTING MEN

DUNCAN HEPBURN reviews THE SHOUTING MEN (15)....

REVIEW: FATHER OF MY CHILDREN

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (12A)....

REVIEW: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

JO USMAR reviews EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (15)....

REVIEW: CASE 39

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews CASE 39 (15)....

Barry Forshaw's DVD Choice

Pick of the DVD releases....

REVIEW: MICMACS

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews MICMACS (12A)....

REVIEW: THE CRAZIES

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews THE CRAZIES (15)....

ALBUM REVIEWS: JOANNA NEWSOM and DEAD LIKE HARRY

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS and KATHRYN WILLIAMS

Album reviews....

LIVE REVIEW: DEPECHE MODE

THERE'S a lot to be said for the O2 as a venue, which makes you wonder why it sat idle for so long as the much-derided Millennium Dome....

GIG REVIEW: MYSTERY JETS

THE presence of Mystery Jets as the closing headliners at HMV's inaugural Next Big Thing festival – a showcase of hotly-tipped indie acts across the chain's Camden and Islington venues...

ALBUM REVIEWS: MASSIVE ATTACK and PLASTICINES

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: CORINNE BAILEY RAE and HOT CHIP

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG and ADAM GREEN

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: ALICIA KEYS and DAVID BOWIE

Album reviews....

Barry Forshaw's CD Choice

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ALBUM REVIEWS: VAMPIRE WEEKEND and FYFE DANGERFIELD

Album reviews....

THRILLER LIVE: REMIXED

HE may be Gone Too Soon, but the legend of MJ's simply incomparable glut of hits lives on in this eyeball-bursting evening....

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

WITH clandestine plots, sex and scandal in spades, Measure for Measure is usually anything but a dull night's theatre....

DUNSINANE

PLAYS about regime change have, unsurprisingly, taken on a new resonance in the aftermath of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan....

THE 14TH TALE

INUA Ellam comes from 'a long line of trouble-makers'....

JERUSALEM

EVERY so often wind gets under the sails of a play and it soars on the sheer power of everyone talking about it....

HAVANA RAKATAN

IT promised an evening full of Caribbean sun, spice and steaminess – and that is exactly what this veritable festival of dance delivered....

11 AND 12

ÜBER-director Peter Brook left the UK for France 35 years ago to set up his company Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord....

IN MEMORY OF EDGAR LUTZEN

DAVID Hauptschein's new play is based on Strindberg s Diary of a Madman....

STAGE FRIGHT

ABI Titmuss seems to be one of those people you either love or hate....

COSI FAN TUTTE

COSI fan Tutte ('All Women are the Same'), includes some of the most beautiful operatic music ever written....


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