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Islington Tribune - NEWS
Published: 18 January 2008

‘SLEAZE’ FEARS AS CLUBBERS MOVE IN

Alarm at drunks in road that houses historic Wesley’s Chapel

A HISTORIC stretch of City Road risks being turned into an “entrenched area of sleaze”, according to campaigners fighting plans by the nightclub Piya Piya to expand and open until 4am. > more

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Use it or lose it, landlord tells pub protesters
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Top solicitor calls for school justice
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The last laugh (but the search is on for a new comedy club venue)
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Politicians don blindfolds to attack ‘secrecy’
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Protesters in clashes with police over deaths of women prisoners

Campaigners call for changes to inmate conditions after latest death behind bars

THERE were skirmishes between campaigners and police on Wednesday... > more

Clergy backs registrar over gay weddings - CHURCH leaders have rallied in support of the marriage registrar embroiled in a legal dispute with the Town Hall because... > more

PO boss urged: Join the 45-minute queue - POST Office boss Adam Crozier was challenged this week: “Come and join a 45-minute queue at our Upper... > more

Street repairs drive business away, say angry shopkeepers - SHOPKEEPERS are de manding compensation for disruption caused by the latest repairs to their street. > more

Woman’s home conditions did not cause death, inquest finds - THE widow of a Sierra Leone foreign minister died a year after she was left to the care of her sons... > more

Would you pay £6,500 for a scribbled promise of love from Tracey Emin? - THEY were just two sheets of paper in glass frames with words hand written but they were... > more

Film-maker hits the roof over 16 phone masts on flats block - AN award-winning film-maker has paid for her own surveyors’ report after she suspected the weight... > more

‘Boss’ gig objectors stay secret - THE Town Hall is keeping secret the names of every person who has objected to Bruce Springsteen concerts at the Emirates stadium. > more

Theatre hopes for grants cut reprieve - AN Islington children’s theatre will hear on Wednesday if it has won an appeal against a £194,000 Arts Council grants... > more

Probe into latest hostel death - THE death of a man at a Finsbury Park hostel on New Year’s Day is being investigated by the Town Hall. > more

Damp homes are making us ill, tenants warn - TENANTS claim they are being made ill by dampness at a block of council flats at Angel. > more

Schoolchildren get out more - PUPILS are swapping the classroom for the great outdoors. > more

£1.5m plans to transform ‘hidden treasure’ museum - A CLERKENWELL mus eum that preserves an ancient order’s unique blend of religious, military and medical... > more

Robber lured victim to flat - ARMED police stormed a flat where a man had been threatened with death during a robbery. > more

Gang turn on youths - TWO teenagers needed hospital treatment when they were attacked by a gang in an Islington street on Saturday. > more

Traders hire top lawyers in last-ditch bid to stop Camden Passage evictions - AN appeal to a government minister was made this week in a last ditch battle... > more

Mother cleared of knife attack - A MOTHER of twins wept when a jury cleared her of participation in a near-fatal knife attack on a teenage student. > more

Play by cyclist left in coma set to open - NEARLY a year after robbers knocked her off her bike and left her for dead at the roadside, artist Jane Gauntlett will mark... > more

Blitz on knife crime - SEVEN arrests were made during a police operation against knife crime on estates. > more

Teenagers assault shop staff - STAFF at an Archway kebab shop were attacked when they asked two teenagers to stop insulting customers. > more

Postman beaten up - A POSTMAN was attack ed while on his morning round in Barnsbury. > more

Cash aid saves threatened youth clubs - TWO Archway youth clubs have been thrown a cash lifeline after funding dried up. > more

‘Teenagers saw drug dealer stabbed to death in street’ - A street brawl between two “small- time” drug dealers ended with the death of one of them as 30... > more