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The people fighting elderly loneliness in Islington
Being lonely at an elderly age is something few people can afford to be, after some scientific studies have suggested loneliness to be as damaging to health as smoking or being severely
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London Mayoral Election: Boris’ Manifesto, Four Years On (Part 1)
Tom Buxton investigates whether London’s ex-mayor fulfilled his electoral pledges and how his actions affected Islington… Few documents enable the public to hold their leaders to account more than the electoral
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Islington and the Refugee Crisis
Islington and the Refugee Crisis: The Islington Refugee Centre’s Struggle to Survive In the latest instalment of our special series on the refugee crisis, Daria Casalini discovers how the Islington Centre for Refugees and
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Opinion: hypocrisy and the diesel surcharge
Diesel car owners will face an additional charge of £96 per year on their parking permits to reduce Islington’s pollution levels. Meanwhile nearly 90% of the council’s fleet still runs
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Radical change needed for Islington’s unemployed, report says
Pioneering measures were proposed today to get the borough’s unemployed into jobs
Finsbury Library: Borrowing books 21st century style
For our St John Street At Work series we visit Finsbury Library, which houses more than 40,000 items, from books to DVDs. We talked to its enthusiastic manager, Chris Millington, about
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Islington crime and safety summit: Role for ‘active participation’ of community, says council
Islington Council and the local police led a crime and safety summit at Islington Town Hall last Saturday [22 March], encouraging the community to take action in preventing and reducing crime
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