A MARKET trader has faced a six-month wait to be able to get to valuable stock because of a dumped car the Town Hall refused to move. Kenny Irish sells educational toys in markets and uses a lock-up ...
A BLUE plaque commemorating the life of Camden’s first recorded black resident and celebrated street performer was put up near Tottenham Court Road this week. Billy Waters became known as the “king of ...
LISMORE Circus in Gospel Oak was looking spectacularly beautiful on Friday afternoon, when I popped up to meet independent business owners breathing new life into a once-forgotten parade. It once ...
IT was the work of a Sicilian photographer that piqued my interest in Bocconcino, an Italian place in Soho. This restaurant in Great Marlborough Street is a stone’s throw from the gallery that is ...
MUSIC history is worryingly full of genius-potential women edged into the shadows of more famous husbands (Clara Schumann), brothers (Nannerl Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn), or fathers (Imogen Holst). But ...
FOR Godiva Marian Thorold there were very strict rules when it came to her nurses and their uniforms. A contemporary of Florence Nightingale, Thorold was Lady Superintendent of Nursing at the ...
Businesses say that there are issues with rubbish collection from the waste contractors they use and that when their rubbish ...
AN Edinburgh Fringe hit, David Head’s debut solo show combines multimedia, storytelling and satire to great effect. In five overlapping narratives, Head explores how romance might pan out in a ...
BANDS, fans and friends paid tribute to a rock and heavy metal legend at a memorial show in Camden Town after he died shortly before he was due to perform there. Iron Maiden’s former frontman Paul ...
AN honest error – or a malicious rumour spread by someone with a grudge against dogs? These are the questions being asked by Hampstead Heath regulars after reports ...
IT was from a north London squat that Norman Kaplan sent images so powerful that a South African judge called his art “dangerous and subversive”. Now, 30 years after the liberation struggle, Kaplan’s ...
ON a dark December morning in Soho, a man views the streets through his grandfather’s welding goggles, which lend “an old-world, blood-orange tint”. This perspective suits the man, Henry Nash, who is ...