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Headlines

Community

Seventy eight homes are empty on estate after council blunder
Massive row developing over regeneration of Ebury Bridge estate
18 August — By Alina Polianskaya

Education

Westminster students celebrate A level success
18 August — By Alina Polianskaya

Business

Celebrated brutalist car park to be demolished for ten-storey hotel
18 August — By Alina Polianskaya

Politics

Celebrations after ‘toxic’ Garden Bridge project officially scrapped
18 August — By Alina Polianskaya

The Xtra Diary

JFK bust removed after vandals attack
18 August — By The Xtra Diary

Other News

Forum

Tin Pan Alley killed by greed!
11 August — By Henry Scott-Irvine

Property

Controversial plans for three new houses in St John’s Wood blocked by planners
11 August — By Alina Polianskaya
Thirty parks in Westminster get Green Flag awards
11 August — By Aleesha Hansel

Business

‘Save our street’ – Ebury Bridge shop owners unite after botched regeneration...
04 August — By Alina Polianskaya

Community

Tributes pour in for much-loved Maida Vale Big Issue seller
04 August — By Alina Polianskaya

The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Happy returns for future MP?
Hamza’s birthday card shows him hanging out at Downing Street and mingling with politicians  WESTMINSTER’S former youth MP Hamza...
11 August — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Guitarist in festival zone
11 August — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Lumiere light show display back by popular demand
21 July — By The Xtra Diary
From the Camden New Journal

John Gulliver

Book talk led to an entertaining quest
15 June — By John Gulliver

The Xtra Diary

Elderly denied pensions are living in caravans and using foodbanks, campaigners warn
02 June — By The Xtra Diary

Review

Theatre

Review: Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales, at Leicester Square Theatre
Leonie Spilsbury, Brian Hargreaves and Lauren Silver in Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales. Photo: Robin Savage THERE once was a...
18 August — By Dan Carrier
From the Islington Tribune

Books

When (not) in Rome…
18 August — By Angela Cobbinah
From the Camden New Journal

Rock n Pop

The man from UNKLE
18 August — By Róisín Gadelrab
From the Camden New Journal

Rock n Pop

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: James Lavelle; St Pancras summer festival; Fugees; Lambchop
18 August — By Róisín Gadelrab
From the Camden New Journal

Film

The medics on a mission
18 August — By Dan Carrier

Letters

Letters

Visit Soho for dangerous streets
18 August

Letters

Oxford Street simply isn’t one of the most dangerous streets in London
18 August
From the Camden New Journal

Letters

Post the Grenfell Tower disaster the LFB needs proper resourcing
• THE home secretary’s refusal so far to assist with the substantial extra costs the...
17 August

Letters

Protest about the cuts to Safer Neighbourhoods Teams
• IN response to Steve Adams (So what is the law for today? August 11), Safer Neighbourhoods Teams are just that, small teams of...
18 August

Letters

Time for a picnic
• NOW the summer holidays are here, parents (and grandparents) everywhere are hunting out activities to keep the children...
18 August
From the Camden New Journal

Letters

Those who can sing do so…
• THOSE who can sing do so, those who cannot, join college choirs at Oxford and Cambridge...
17 August
From the Camden New Journal

Letters

Cobbett had a point about armaments
• NUCLEAR deterrent? If not William Cobbett had a point: “The fall of Napoleon is the...
17 August
From the Camden New Journal

Letters

Schiller knew about play…
• I WRITE further to the article (Play’s the thing, August 10) about “pure fun the order...
17 August

Westminster People

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Sonia Cassidy on Coffee, Cake and Kisses
The most difficult conversations start in the kitchen, says founder
28 July — By Alina Polianskaya

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Murad Magden, Covent Garden’s Sarastro restaurant boss
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Soho Parish headteacher Joffy Conolly
07 July — By Alina Polianskaya

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Nika Garrett, Soho tour guide
16 June — By Alina Polianskaya

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Peter Hartley, an activist taking to the streets
13 June — By Alina Polianskaya

More news

Critics slam seizures of rough sleepers’ tents
19 May — By William McLennan

Crime

Parents of lawyer killed by falling frames in Mayfair hit out at health and safety failings
12 May — By Tom Foot
LSE faces strike action by cleaners
19 May — By Alina Polianskaya

Crime

Man stabbed several times after reports of fight in street
12 May — By Alina Polianskaya
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