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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BLAZE at derelict Stoke Newington library sparks fears of explosion

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BLAZE at derelict Stoke Newington library sparks fears of explosion.
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26 August 2009
A mystery blaze at a derelict library sparked fears of an explosion after gas cylinders were discovered inside this morning .
Flames engulfed the former council-run Brownswood Library on the corner of Brownswood Road and Seven Sisters Road, Stoke Newington, which closed 13 [...]

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‘Drugs’ shooting shocks estate

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‘Drugs’ shooting shocks estate
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13 August 2009

PAUL DELAPPE outside Fallowfield: “”Estate is bad for drugs

A MAN was shot in the head for his BMW and three mobile phones just yards from people’s front doors.Detectives are investigating whether last Thursday’s shooting – during which the victim narrowly escaped with his life – was a drug [...]

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‘30 bullets’ fired into sports store with machine gun

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‘30 bullets’ fired into sports store with machine gun
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12 August 2009
MACHINE gun fire rang out across a busy street on Tuesday night as two men sprayed bullets into a shop.Up to 30 shots were fired at a sportswear store with no name in Seven Sisters Road, close to the junction with Yonge Park, Finsbury [...]

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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
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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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WOOLWICH: Teenager claims he killed David Cooper in self-defence

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WOOLWICH: Teenager claims he killed David Cooper in self-defence
10:28am Wednesday 8th July 2009
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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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‘Puppy farms’ breeding wild dogs

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‘Puppy farms’ breeding wild dogs
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02 July 2009

PC George Thomson with two pitbulls which had to be destroyed after a raid on a council flat in Finsbury Park

ILLEGAL “puppy farms” on Islington housing estates are breeding hundreds of banned danger dogs every year worth up to £8,000 a litter.
Two dangerous pit bull terriers alleged [...]

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