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Headlines

Community

Residents ‘furious’ over collapse of Ebury Bridge estate regeneration plans
Council apologises for debacle and faces demand for a ’referendum’
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya

Education

Parents back striking primary school teachers at King Solomon Academy
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya
Bus crash survivor says ‘safety is not a priority for TfL’ after new report released
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya

Community

School technician who brightened up the science department for 47 years bids a fond farewell
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya

Community

Guitar maker forced out of Tin Pan Alley by developer
21 July — By Alina Polianskaya

Other News

From the Camden New Journal

Crime

Detectives ask for help over 2010 discovery of human finger
06 July — By Geoffrey Sawyer

Education

Billy Cobham and the ‘little voices’ of Soho Parish School at Ronnie Scott’s
16 June — By Elmira Tanatarova

Crime

‘Together we can save lives’ – mums aim to tackle knife crime
30 May — By Alina Polianskaya
From the Camden New Journal
Workhouse that inspired Dickens to write Oliver Twist set to become luxury flats
06 July — By Richard Osley

The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Lumiere light show display back by popular demand
Event wants to transform London into 'giant art exhibition without walls'
21 July — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Soho Parish Primary pupil named ‘Mayor of Soho’
07 July — By The Xtra Diary

The Xtra Diary

Former Labour councillor Murad Gassanly joins Tories
07 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

From the Camden New Journal

Books

Slumming it
The Grenfell Tower tragedy throws into sharp relief London’s housing problems. Angela Cobbinah talks to Anna Minton, whose new...
27 July — By Angela Cobbinah
From the Camden New Journal

Theatre

Review: A Tale of Two Cities, at Regent’s Park Open-air Theatre
20 July — By Catherine Usher
From the Camden New Journal

Rock n Pop

Deft punk
20 July — By Róisín Gadelrab

Theatre

Review: Queen Anne, at Theatre Royal Haymarket
21 July — By Sipora Levy

Classical & Jazz

Haydn’s Nelson Mass opens the week-long St Marylebone Festival
20 July — By Sebastian Taylor

Letters

Letters

HS2 aims its message at kids
21 July

Letters

Why the residents of Soho’s Kemp House feel under siege
• KEMP House residents have reached breaking point. After more than two years of fairly consistent misery (and in the shadow of...
21 July

Letters

STPs are an unhealthy US import…
• WE now discover from the Socialist Health Association that the so-called Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are...
21 July

Letters

I’ve been disconnected from our communal TV aerial – but who cares?
• IN a time of turmoil for the social housing sector nationwide, I found myself, being a social housing tenant, on the receiving...
21 July

Letters

Pedestrianise Oxford Street and make it safer
21 July

Letters

Healthy or hostile – streets are for everyone
21 July

Letters

There’s power without responsibility here
• FURTHER to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster… “The wonder of Western democracy: very limited power but zero responsibility.” –...
21 July

Letters

Who put L in Deliveroo?
• IS it so very wrong for me to expect to be able to cross my own street without being mown down by a learner-badged Deliveroo...
21 July

Westminster People

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Murad Magden, Covent Garden’s Sarastro restaurant boss
It's like stepping into Alice in Wonderland, says owner
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

People

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Rick Ogden, new fire commander facing ‘unique challenges’
02 June — By William McLennan

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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