Event Details Title Gillespie Park Festival
Date 13 September 2009
Times 1pm – 6pm
Availability Available
Description This will be the 23rd Gillespie Park festival, consisting of a wide range of music and dancing, including rap, line dancing and Morris dancing, plus childrens activities such as storytelling, drumming and football.
Costs Free
Notes Places: No maximum. Booking not required.
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Islington Tribune – by PETER GRUNER
Published: 4 September 2009
Hugh Grant
Finsbury to feature in moody love story
A NEW £1.5million feature film could do for Finsbury Park what the movie Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, did for Notting Hill.
Broken Lines, due to be premiered in the UK next year, is described as [...]
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‘Offensive’: Little Terror, the 3ft ‘artwork’ by Mason Storm at Gallery 90 in Finsbury Park
An art gallery has provoked controversy [...]
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Islington Tribune – by ROISIN GADELRAB
Published: 10 July 2009
Selin, Elif, Piu Yee and Souhila carry out their energy audit at Ambler School.
Toaster grilling: Pupils stage kitchen energy audit
KETTLES, toasters and smoothie makers squirmed under the scrutiny of a tough judging panel from a Finsbury Park school during a classroom energy audit last week.
A [...]
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New police group to hunt most wanted
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23 April 2009
A NEW unit has been set up to hunt down Islington’s most wanted offenders – and detectives have released pictures of the latest people in their sights.
The new police Wanted Offenders Unit was set up this year to investigate cases where suspects had disappeared, or where [...]
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Islington Tribune – by PETER GRUNER
Published: 3 April 2009
Jeremy Corbyn
‘We don’t want slums back’
MP’s warning at meeting aimed at saving Finsbury Park from falling victim to the recession
ISLINGTON North MP Jeremy Corbyn has called for Finsbury Park to fight the recession and save young people from the danger of growing up in [...]
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Islington Tribune – by ROISIN GADELRAB and PETER GRUNER
Published: 13 March 2009
YOUTHS TO BE BANNED FROM TUBE STATION
Police bid to tackle youngsters intimidating staff and passengers
GROUPS of youths look set to be banned from Finsbury Park station following reports of a campaign of intimidation against staff and claims that gangs are recruiting [...]
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Ahmed Saad and Labour leader Cllr Catherine West
Mosque opens it doors as part of neighbour celebration day
Community event shows new face of the Finsbury Park place of worship
ONCE a hotbed of extremism, Finsbury Park’s towering red brick mosque opened its doors on Saturday to hundreds of local residents as part of a [...]
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Islington Tribune – by ROISIN GADELRAB
Published: 6 February 2009
HAVE POLICE LOST OUR CONFIDENCE?
After three murders in year, survey reveals low approval rating
CONFIDENCE levels in police are lower in Islington than anywhere else in London, new figures compiled by the Met have revealed.
Police chiefs have been stunned by the statistics, which show only 29 [...]
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Islington Tribune – by PETER GRUNER
Published: 6 February 2009
Katherine Wratten
Sit down, have a cuppa… and get to know your neighbour
Pubs, cafés and churches offer warm welcome as community draws closer
THE solid citizens of Highbury will “celebrate their neighbours” tomorrow (Saturday) in the first of a planned series of events to help people cope [...]
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