Burglary rates are falling, insist police

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Burglary rates are falling, insist police
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26 August 2009
POLICE insist soaring rates of burglary insurance claims are at odds with the borough’s falling break-in rates in crime-hit streets.
Hornsey and Crouch End were named and shamed as the second most risky areas to live in the capital according to the number of insurance claims filed last [...]

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One year on… and gallery lies empty

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Islington Tribune – by PETER GRUNER
Published: 21 August 2009

Shiri Shalmy

One year on… and gallery lies empty
A YEAR after arts exhibitions were kicked out of a converted public toilet in 115-acre Finsbury Park, the building remains empty.
And this week a row blew up over the eviction of arts promoter Shiri Shalmy from the gallery [...]

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Please your palate at Harringay Food Festival

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Please your palate at Harringay Food Festival
7:00am Friday 14th August 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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‘Unsafe’ festival is axed

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‘Unsafe’ festival is axed
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06 August 2009
A TWO-day fashion and music festival in Finsbury Park has been scrapped just four days before it was set to take place – after police raised “serious safety concerns”.
Police claimed organisers of the first ever Africa Caribbean Asia Fashion Week would struggle to cope with up to 10,000 visitors [...]

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Haringey is London’s top burglary ‘hotspot’

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Haringey is London’s top burglary ‘hotspot’
5:09pm Thursday 30th July 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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Community’s helping hands leads to green award

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Community’s helping hands leads to green award
12:54pm Monday 27th July 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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20mph zone plea for kids’ safety

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20mph zone plea for kids’ safety
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31 July 2009
HARINGEY Council should clamp down on thundering traffic by cutting speed limits along a “narrow residential road” from 30mph to 20mph, say campaigners.A petition signed by 240 residents has been gathered by Liberal Democrat councillors Karen Alexander and Carolyn Baker, demanding the speed reduction in narrow Wightman [...]

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Punter robbed in bookies raid

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Punter robbed in bookies raid
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23 July 2009
ARMED men burst into a bookmakers, threatened staff and robbed a customer of cash and mobile phones in an early-morning raid.The men hit the Coral bookies in Green Lanes, between Hewitt and Seymour Roads, Harringay, at 8.30am last Wednesday, police said.
The men, described as black and aged between [...]

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Police urge assault woman: “please make contact”

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Police urge assault woman: “please make contact”
12:20pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition

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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition
If you enjoyed the Transport Museum’s Art of the Poster exhibition and are a dab hand at design yourself then you’ve got just over 3 weeks left to enter the Poster Design Competition which is being run by the Museum, TFL and the London Design Festival.
The brief is [...]

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