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Friday, April 1, 2016
Stefan Appleton (Picture: Met Police)

A 17-year-old boy faces jail after being convicted of killing teenager Stefan Appleton in a Canonbury Park last June.

Friday, April 1, 2016
An Islington-based charity has started a fundraising campaign to buy a milk float and turn it into a mobile potting shed and nature classroom

An Islington charity has started a fundraising campaign to buy a milk float and turn it into a mobile potting shed and nature classroom.

Friday, April 1, 2016
Ami Wyman, 23, was pleased she attended the apprenticeship fair in King's Cross. Picture: Jody Kingzett

Youth unemployment in Islington is double the average for London, and a housing association moved to solve this with its first ever apprenticeship fair in King’s Cross.

Friday, April 1, 2016
(left to right) Joy-Fleur Brettschneider (Head of Marketing Thoughtworks) , June Angelides (Founder Mums in Technology), Simona Barbieri (Founder Hub Dot)

Tech City is the third largest technology hub in the world, and it’s right on our doorstep. Each week, we bring you news from the thriving area around Old Street roundabout. This week Victoria Ibitoye chats to June Angelides and Simona Barbieri, the women behind Silicon Lunchabout.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Rosalind Readhead, London Mayor candidate

Anti-car campaigner Rosalind Readhead has announced that she will no longer be standing as an independent candidate for mayor of London.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Dame Zaha Hadid at the London Aquatics Centre (Picture: Rahil Ahmad)

World-renowned architect Zaha Hadid has died at the age of 65, her firm has announced.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Richard Storer in his property which he rents out during the day on the Vrumi website

Islington homeowners are pocketing extra cash by renting out bits of their houses to office workers during the day using the website Vrumi. The Gazette speaks to three about their experiences

Thursday, March 31, 2016
The man was allegedly shot in Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park. Picture: Google Maps

Gang police are investigating after a man was allegedly shot by a gunman on a motorbike in Finsbury Park last night.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Kim Blake with her daughter Chloe. Photo curtesy of the Blake family.

A heartbroken Kentish Town mother said a leading weight-loss surgeon who showed “reckless disregard” whilst caring for her daughter at had “got what he deserved” following news he has been struck off.

Sport

Thursday, March 31, 2016
Brian Talbot, Arsenal

Brian Talbot says winning the Premier League this season will be “very difficult” for Arsenal as they resume their campaign with the visit of Watford.

Thursday, March 31, 2016
James Fuller of Middlesex claims the wicket of Surrey's Dominic Sibley during their pre-season friendly at The Oval. Pic: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo

It hardly feels like anything resembling summer just yet, but Middlesex’s preparations for the new campaign are already at an advanced stage.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Ricky Price (right) celebrates putting Boston Celtics ahead in their 4-3 win over Regent's Park Rovers. Pic: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo

Berat Eryureller slammed in a 40-yard free-kick to secure a dramatic 4-3 victory for Boston Celtics in their Hackney & Leyton League Division Three clash with Regent’s Park.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Islington BC's Joshua Strong was named best home boxer on his debut at the club's open show at the Boston Arms. Pic: Dieter Perry

Islington BC’s Joshua Strong made a memorable debut as he was named home boxer of the night on the club’s open show at the Boston Arms.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Islington U11s

Islington Under-11s have booked their place in the Kay Trophy final after holding off a second-half Lewisham comeback to secure a 3-2 victory.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Arsenal's Jack Wilshere

In the aftermath of England’s miraculous but deserved victory over Germany, thoughts quickly turned to the make-up of Roy Hodgson’s squad for the European Championship and the will he, won’t he question of Jack Wilshere.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Shaun Dixon (right) in action for Highgate Harriers. Pic: Dieter Perry

Highgate Harriers’ Shaun Dixon finished 12th out of over 12,000 runners at the World Half Marathon Championships on Sunday, recording his second best time over the distance.

Thursday, March 24, 2016
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on the touchline at Goodison Park

By no means could a 3-1 defeat to European champions Barcelona – arguably the best club side in the world – be regarded as anything resembling a disgrace.

Entertainment

Friday, April 1, 2016
A still from Victoria

At the end of two-and-a-quarter hours, the first name to appear in the credits is that of the cameraman.

Yuriri Naka in Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes. Picture: Idil Sukan/Draw

Daniel Everett is the kind of guy to scream and shout: ‘Alleluia’.

Paul Kemp and Emily Burnett - Beacons - (c) Scott Rylander (2)

We are in Eastbourne, at Julie’s Ices Kiosk.

The Bairro Alto hotel in Lisbon

Gustavo Pinto Basto had just been singing about how much he missed his horse - the most beautiful to ever live.

Taron Egerton, left, stars as Eddie the Eagle alongside Hugh Jackman, right. Picture: Larry Horricks

If there is one thing the British excel at, it is plucky underdog stories. So it was inevitable that one day there would be an Eddie Edwards film, the man who after less than a year in the sport competed in the ski jump in the 1988 Winter Olympics. That it would feature Hugh Jackman was much less so.

Three Loose Teeth by Thomas McMullan, produced with Backsbroke

Shoreditch 2016: a sea of art galleries, pop-ups, trendy bars and hipster coffee shops.

A scene from The Club

It’s a film about Catholic priests so, as you’d expect, it’s full of graphic sex talk.

Joel Sanders interviews Harry Hill

Interviewing someone who interviews other people for a living is an irony not lost on this journalist, but thankfully Joel Sanders is just as comfortable answering questions as he is putting them to some of the biggest names in comedy.

A scene from The Dishonoured at the Kali Theatre. Picture: Robert Day

Presenting a tale of high stakes espionage and crumbling international relations may seem like a tough ask for the static space of a theatre stage, but writer Aamina Ahmad has not been deterred in bringing her bold vision to life.

Made Visible at The Yard Theatre. Picture: Mark Douet

Canadian writer Deborah Pearson peels back the layers surrounding the thorny issues of racial prejudice and white guilt in her new play Made Visible.

album review

Having built up a reputation as one of the coolest guitar bands on the planet over the last decade, with cut’n’shut riffage and rhythm changes, some serious drumming chops and second-to-none axemanship, the Austin band’s sixth LP might have worried some.

Macellaio RC

“And now I am going to stick a knife in the table,” Eugenio warned us in a serious manner, as he plunged the Pintinox into reclaimed wood, before unveiling the T-bone steak – a ritual symbolising the ‘butcher’ after which the restaurant is named.

The Edinboro Castle in Camden Town has had a makeover

Thanks to its unusually large beer garden, north Londoners flock to spend sunny afternoons lazing at The Edinboro Castle. It’s a cornerstone of Camden Town’s drinking scene.

Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey and Rob Angell star in The Railway Children. Picture: Anthony Robling

Don’t worry: it is not a remake, your treasured memories of Jenny Agutter waving her red knickers are not about to be denigrated and despoiled.

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