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West End news: 77 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER BARRED OVER HAT- Bayswater pub tells pensioner in beret they can’t serve her for ‘security reasons’

Shirley Phelan wearing her beret at her Bayswater home

Published: 5 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB

Broken Britain (the roads) – £1m repairs

Council leader Terry Stacy with Councillor Ursula Woolley and Caspar Woolley

Published: 5 February 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB

West End news: £23,000! Tories dine out on taxpayers. Northumberland Hotel venue for lavish civic banquet

Northumberland Hotel in Trafalgar Square

Published" 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

West End news: Blue Plaque honour for Hungarian contact lens pioneer Josef Dallos

Josef Dallos

Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

West End news: MP, Mark Field draws on personal experience to urge caution on right to die issue

Mark with his brother Dominic in Oxford days

Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

West End news: Class act of curators for the museum- St Vincent Primary school youngsters take charge of Wallace Collection

Shhh… it’s a secret: St Vincent’s pupils explore the mysteries of the Wallace Co

Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

It sounds like a recipe for a big insurance claim.

West End news: Clean start... Veolia all set to renew lucrative cleaning contract

Danny Chalkley with Pascal Hauret, Veolia’s municipal operations director

Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

Obituary: Gillian Gore - From the theatre to a career in journalism

Gillian Gore

Published: 5 February 2010
by JOSH LOEB

West End news: On yer bike! Students’ cycle scheme - Bike it Project for Millbank Primary School

Io Munoro, 10, cycles to school every day

Published: 5 February 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM

Xtra Diary: Half a century of Carnaby Street

Half a century of street

Xtra Diary Image:

aka Lesley Hornby – in 1960s Carnaby Street, by Philip Townsend

Concrete egg-box sale

Published: 4 February 2010

‘If we make voices heard, we can save our Whittington Hospital’

Save Our Whittington Hospital

HOSPITAL UNDER THREAT: Campaigners to take to streets as famous faces join protest to prevent closure of A&E department. Report by Tom Foot

Published: 4 February 2010

Friends rally to back Camden Mayor Omar Faruque Ansari after heart attack

Omar Faruque Ansari gets a health check

From hospital, the suspended First Citizen tells the New Journal he’s concentrating on getting better as Lib Dems face criticism over reaction to his arrest

Published: 4 February 2010
by RICHARD OSLEY and JOSH LOEB

Health news: Surviving tumour changed creative style of painter set to exhibit Thames pieces at hospital

Ben Baker painting on the banks of the Thames

Published: 4 February 2010
by TOM FOOT

Oligarch Alisher Usmanov ‘wants to expand empire’

A sketch of how Alisher Usmanov’s swimming pool could be encased

Published: 4 February 2010
by DAN CARRIER