DESPITE the gloomy weather on Saturday dedicated gardeners from the Highgate Horticultural Society still had a blooming good day at the 149th summer show.
A PSYCHOLOGIST who went to work with notorious New York street gangs the Bloods and Crips has brought her experience to the Rowley Way estate in Swiss Cottage.
IT’S official: from next year library branches in Hampstead, Belsize Park and Chalk Farm will no longer be run by the Town Hall after a final bid for a policy re-think was rejected.
FOR 25 years it has graced the kitchen wall of a Holborn flat, but now a historic street sign honouring legendary South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela will be on display for all to see.
WORK is finally set to begin on a new home that will replace four unused garages, nearly 40 years after plans for the project were first submitted.
MORE than 200 police officers yesterday (Wednesday) swooped on suspected class A drug dealers in a dramatic rush-hour operation.
SUSPECTED drug dealers got a nasty shock yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon when they ran into a squadron of more than 200 police officers.
Sunday July 17 2011
A MOTORCYCLIST has died after being knocked off his bike in Bloomsbury on Friday evening. Police are investigating a collision between his Yamaha motorbike and a Toyota Previa at the junction of Tavistock Square and Bedford Way at around 9.15pm. Officers want witnesses to the crash to come forward. The 52 year-old motorcyclist from east London was taken to the Royal London hospital with head injuries but died there early on Saturday.
Witnesses should contact the Road Death Investigation Unit at Alperton on 020 8998 5319.
A LEGAL threat by parents has forced an Islington school to abandon its plans to become a new academy – which would see it opt out of local authority control – in a move that observers
FOURTEEN men, aged between 13 and 24, have so far been arrested in connection with Andrew Jaipaul’s murder.