Have you seen our tree?
THE pedestrianised areas of Camden Town are all done… but whatever happened to the large tree outside the HSBC bank which was in those original artists impressions for [READ ON]
March 2013
Are musical aptitude tests for school places ‘elitist’?
FORTISMERE secondary school up in Muswell Hill posted the results of an interesting survey on its website just as Easter broke. The oversubscribed school which is said to [READ ON]
Tories turning LSE campus blue?
HARDLY restrained delight shouts out of the pages of the student newspaper at the London School of Economics this week.. from the Conservatives. They say student politics on [READ ON]
Lib Dem resignation: ‘My politics haven’t changed but…’
IN the opinion pages of the Ham and High this week, the Lib Dems find, on the heels of the resignations from the party of Jo Shaw and Phillipe Sands QC, another letter of sad [READ ON]
The Mennear-Bryant bean bag room
WHEN the UCL Academy officially opened last week, it was interesting to see which local politicians were there in the front rows of the celebratory assembly… and which [READ ON]
Where’s scoop?
HERE’S a bit of friendly teasing of New Journal and Islington Tribune reporter Tom Foot by Islington Council leader Catherine West, who asked the crowds at the [READ ON]
Benefit cuts: Spot the difference
IN Haringey, residents are being warned about the reductions and capping of benefits with a council poster showing a sort of danger-danger red triangle road sign with the [READ ON]
She said, he said…
LIBERAL Democrats continue to insist that Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone was not invited to speak at last Saturday’s Whittington Hospital rally, as she [READ ON]
Amy on the terrace
SO, what about this life-size statue of Amy Winehouse looking down from the terraces of the Roundhouse? Not everybody likes the idea, but surely it’s one at least worth [READ ON]
‘I want to concentrate on this one’
IT was in Alexandra Palace’s Palm Court, less than a year ago. The first question we asked Andrew Dismore when he came down from the stage celebrating his election to [READ ON]
Richard Osley 