IN Tracy Chevalier’s last novel, A Single Thread, a woman contemplates Jane Austen’s grave and wonders how much she might achieve before she’s the age Austen died. With her 11th, The Glassmaker, ...

IF Nigel Farage’s record of standing seven times as an election candidate without winning a seat – and famously being trounced by a dolphin – sounds like hard work, then meet the man who will be ...

• AFTER several years of deliberation, Camden finally published its proposals for the Dartmouth Park Area Healthy Neighbourhood scheme in July, following delays caused by the pre-election periods from ...

A FINE art transportation company lorry has accidentally knocked down a tree in Gospel Oak. Resident Roger Harrabin said it was “such a shame” to see the 30ft-tall lime tree lying on the ground in ...

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 ...

ACID was thrown over two women near Queen’s Crescent and police say the suspects are still at large. Two women, aged 20 and 59, said that they had opened a front door on Tuesday, July 9, to two men ...

TUBE bosses have said Kentish Town station will not re-open on time in a devastating blow to struggling traders and frustrated residents. The station closed in June 2023 with the promise from ...

THE creeping criminalisation of the homeless often flies under the radar. As the months roll by, more and more “antisocial behaviour” measures are being slapped on vulnerable people, often those who ...

SIR Keir Starmer battled out a TV duel with Rishi Sunak this week­ – but back in Kentish Town he was being challenged to a street debate with an independent candidate standing against him in Holborn ...

A SPORTS club has raised the alarm on scammers who are defrauding locals by pretending to raise money on the their behalf. Islington Boxing Club issued an alert, warning people not to give money to ...

“POSSESSION FC” Arsenal ground out a nervy win against struggling visitors that managed one off target shot in the entire ...

A FEW hours before seeing this show I was involved in a somewhat disappointing end-of-year discussion with colleagues about our ‘highlights of 2024’. As the curtain fell on this rich and strange ...