Opera & Dance

by JAMIE WELHAM AND JENNIFER LIPMAN

THE partner of a woman found strangled at her Finsbury Park home on New Year’s Eve has been charged with murder.

PETE King, who has died aged 80, was the driving force behind Britain’s leading jazz venue, Ronnie Scott’s.

WHEN this school year ends, headteacher Mary Gibson will have been teaching in Islington for 40 years.

A NEW hotel set to open in the Trocadero probably won’t find itself on the shortlist of host venues for the annual conference of claustrophobes.

A COUNCIL tenant has been awarded the MBE for her voluntary work in housing.

THE New Year’s Day Honours List has showered accolades on a number of Westminster figures noted for their contributions to the arts, medicine, charity and broadcasting.

POLICE have released e-fit images of two thieves who posed as window cleaners to trick their way into a woman’s home.

THE council scooped third prize for its Wizard of Oz-themed float at the New Year’s Day parade.

ACTOR Rupert Graves and film director Sharon Maguire are among residents and tenants celebrating victory in a row over parking in Holloway.

RUNNING bulldozers through Archway and starting again has been a fruitless plan for so long that Islington Council needs to stop waiting for a developer to show up like a knight in shining armour and

A New Year campaign for a reduction in the business rates in Camden Passage has being launched by traders.

PENSIONERS enjoyed a second council-sponsored visit to the theatre this week after their first trip was cancelled because of a power cut.

FORMER Islington Mayor Joe Trotter is concerned that a recently-restored 100-year-old clock in Angel may not be vandal-proof.

POLICE investigating a stabbing at a Clerkenwell pub are appealed to the public for help in tracing a man.