Blast Victim Gas Leak Probe
- May
- 17
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Detectives investigating the blast in Stanley Road, Harrow, north London, on May 7 think it was caused by a gas leak, Scotland Yard said.
Police had linked the explosion to a substance poured through the letterbox of number 21 but this has now been ruled out as a cause.
Earlier, the sister of bomb blast victim Charlotte [...]
Mayoral Election Results Live
- May
- 3
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It’s been a bad night for Labour, and the television news and radio phone-ins have been full of doomy left-wingers and jubilant tories all morning, but will the trend carry through into the results of the mayoral election?
We’ll be keeping an eye on the results and reactions as they come in, and updating throughout the [...]
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis: And Mum and Dad came, too
- April
- 8
“We kinda got pulled over by the cops,” says Kitty Durham, at 15 the youngest member of bequiffed north London musical siblings Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. “We’d come from the airport, got in the car to get some food, parked, the restaurant was shut,” adds her brother Lewis, 17. “So we went back to the [...]
Opera for children
- March
- 18
I am a few minutes late for my first opera class with Evie, my four-year-old
daughter. We have got lost in the sprawling Victorian corridors of Poole’s
Park Primary School in Islington, North London. Are we in the right place at
all, I begin to wonder, as we peer into a ghostly-looking canteen? I am just
about to head [...]
Time and Place Tony Parsons life in a London bedsit
- March
- 5
Between 1976 and 1979, I lived in a bedsit on the ground floor of 22 Rosebery
Gardens, in Crouch End, north London. I got the room when I started my job
at the NME [New Musical Express]. Before that, I had been living in
Billericay, in Essex, with my parents and working in an Islington gin
distillery. I had [...]
A night sleeping rough then Christmas got ugly
- January
- 7
Christmas was not a big deal for me. I had never enjoyed it as a child and now
that I was grown up I would do anything to avoid it. I was quite convinced
that no one would consider buying me a present and I doubted that my family
would even notice that I was missing.
That year, 1979, [...]
