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  Tuesday, July 25th 2017
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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

Community

Flagship academy rocked by teacher exodus and strikes
14 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

Soho Parish Primary pupil named ‘Mayor of Soho’
Lord Mayor says he's 'got competition'
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
Xtra Diary: South East Bayswater Residents’ Association (SEBRA) summer garden party a great success
15 July

Review

From the Camden New Journal

Theatre

Review: A Tale of Two Cities, at Regent’s Park Open-air Theatre
Innovative, dynamic and quite long, this adaptation might not be one for those who want undiluted Dickens
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
From the Camden New Journal

Film

Dunkirk: once more unto the beach
20 July — By Dan Carrier

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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