Opera & Dance

A YOUTH worker has died after fracturing his skull in an accident while cycling in a Finsbury side street.

CITY Hall chiefs have ignored the chorus of condemnation and approved plans to send its “events tsar” on an all expenses paid “jolly” to the Winter Olympics in Canada.

PLANS for an extra storey, containing nine new flats, above a 1930s homes block in Tufnell Park have been describ­ed as “architectural vandalism” by angry neighbours.

PROP forwards whimpered in changing rooms, joggers stripped down for the treadmill and even the new craze for men’s tights couldn’t persuade footballers to venture outdoors.

HE served as an Islington councillor in the 1970s alongside Jack Straw, in the years before the latter became a government minister.

AN “out-of-control” bar has been stripped of its 24-hour licence after a man was shot inside the club just before Christmas.

THE £450m landmark redevelopment of St Giles’ Circus has passed another important milestone – a crane has placed a large Belgian oak tree at its centre.

TENANTS praised the Tribune this week after heating which was being switched off at midnight remained on for 24 hours under orders from the Town Hall.

A CELEBRATED house DJ and his partners have won the right to open an arty bar and restaurant until 4am at weekends.

THE private diary of a 19th-century Soho clerk is being serialised online more than 160 years after it was written.

HE’S been a popular flower seller outside Essex Road rail station for almost half a century, with actress Cate Blanchett, singer Sade and fashion designer Katharine Hamnett among his customer

GOVERNMENT inspectors have praised staff at Pimlico Academy for raising standards in its opening year.

ASPIRING actors from Westminster Academy performed in a professional venue for the first time this week with a 30-minute cut of Romeo and Juliet, as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival.

THE story of the lost streets of Barnsbury – flattened by Second World War bombs and later turned into the placid green square of Barnard Park – is being retold in a new exhibition.

FIRST there were snowfalls... then this fountain of water.