[from Islington Tribune]
Islington Tribune - by ROISIN GADELRAB
Published: 11 July 2008
Parents outside the Andover Early Years Centre this week
Last hope for nursery hailed as ‘an amazing community’
Parents plead for closure reprieve as merger with nearby centre looms
PARENTS will have one last chance to save a Finsbury Park nursery after councillors [...]
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[from Islington Gazette]
Bid to drive kids away from crime
nlnews@archant.co.uk
27 February 2008
HUNDREDS of Islington youngsters at risk of becoming fully-fledged gangsters will get individual programmes to steer them away from drugs and violence.
As part of a new pledge to “get tough on gangs”, Islington Council and the police have drawn up a list of hardened [...]
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[from Islington Gazette]
Closure threat to police station
nlnews@archant.co.uk
06 February 2008
UNDER THREAT – Holloway police station
HOLLOWAY police station could be closed under controversial modernisation plans.
The Hornsey Road station - which sits on the edge of the crime-ridden Andover Estate in Islington’s most deprived ward, Tollington - is manned 24-hours-a-day 365 days a year.
Along with Islington [...]
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[from Islington Tribune]
Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 1 February 2008
Dr Jitendra Patel
DOCTORS’ BASE LIES EMPTY AS SURGERY SHUTS
Medical centre ‘mothballed’ but patients face search for new GP
ANGER mounted this week over the “scandal” of a new purpose-built medical practice which has remained empty for two years – while yet another GP [...]
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[from Islington Gazette]
Murder victim dead in flat for up to three weeks
nlnews@archant.co.uk
25 January 2008
The murder scene on the Andover Estate
THE body of a man found beaten to death in his council flat could have been lying there since the New Year.
It has now emerged that the remains of James Anthony Pounal were only [...]
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[from Islington Tribune]
Hoodies shun TV MP’s estate rerun
SHE was back on the Andover estate this week, but this time former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe could not find a single hoodie to browbeat.
But she did meet a man with a beard, Islington North Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, who turned the tables on the MP, telling [...]
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[from Islington Gazette]
Police open mobile ’station’
nlnews@archant.co.uk
19 December 2007
THE first mobile police station in Islington is set to help tackle the violence that has plagued a notorious Finsbury Park street.
There have been a number of violent incidents in Blackstock Road, Finsury Park, this year and shopkeepers have described the road as “lawless”.
Now the £35,000 mobile [...]
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Recent news of 24-hour lights on in Six Acres Estate Islington caused a lot of noise and apparently angry reactions among estate residents.
Of course this issue became a political battle field as you would expect, just read Town Hall told: Forget wind turbines, turn the lights off.
Having wind turbines is a good thing and to [...]
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[from Islington Gazette]
Call to stamp out illegal dog fighting
nlnews@archant.co.uk
22 August 2007
PET owners in Islington say illegal dog fighting is “rife” next door to a famous animal hospital - and are calling on the authorities to clamp down on the owners.
Ownership of Staffordshire bull terriers and other bull terrier-type dogs is on the increase. But many [...]
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