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Meg Howarth, Ellington Street, Islington, writes: Partners Islington is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘special purpose vehicle’, set up by a previous Lib Dem administration to manage the council’s 6,500 street properties. It isn’t, nor ever was, a housing association (Islington Council urges: ‘Raise repairs before Partners hands back homes’). ‘We wanted to get into as many basement flats as we possibly could, as we know there are concerns around damp.’ What programme manager, Saf Khan, fails to say is that damp-proofing the stairwells of Partners-managed basement flats/ma...

Published: 1:56 PM May 7, 2021    # bored (rain) is one of the student memes that contributed to the digital artwork - Credit: Courtesy of Culture Mile Pupils across north London have created digital and hand drawn memes to show how they felt during lockdown as part of an interactive artwork.  The idea came from Ella James, head of art and design at City of London Academy Highbury Grove. Inspired by artists such as Andy Warhol and Barbara Kruger, she developed the project during the recent lockdown, teaching students how to use a range of media to describe their mood at a challenging...

Whiskey Au Go Go arson murderer dies as new inquest opens One of the two men convicted of murder over the notorious 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire that killed 15 people has died. Crime by Kay Dibben and Patrick Billings 29th Apr 2021 12:35 PM Premium Content A man convicted of murder in the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing has died. A pre inquest hearing into the Fortitude Valley nightclub arson, which killed 15 people, has heard James Richard Finch is dead. Finch and co-accused John Andrew Stuart were convicted of murd...

Whiskey Au Go Go arson murderer dies as new inquest opens One of the two men convicted of murder over the notorious 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire that killed 15 people has died. Crime by Kay Dibben and Patrick Billings 29th Apr 2021 12:35 PM Premium Content A man convicted of murder in the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing has died. A pre inquest hearing into the Fortitude Valley nightclub arson, which killed 15 people, has heard James Richard Finch is dead. Finch and co-accused John Andrew Stuart were convicted of murd...

The team from left: Eleanor McLoughlin; Michael Spurgeon; John Rynne; James Gavin - Credit: Polly Hancock Brendan the Navigator has poured its first pint for punters – and proclaimed “the good times are back”. The new pub at 90 Highgate Hill opened on Thursday evening (April 22) after much anticipation and excitement from the local community. The free house, a fusion of Irish and English influences, says it will focus on live acoustic music, “recognisable, homely food” – and “creating a good night”. In the building once home to the Old Crown, it is being run and restored by ...