Islington, England News

The feminist, socialist campaigner and journalist Zelda Curtis has died aged 89.

Poor GCSE and A-level results revealed in new government league tables are down in part to a "difficult cohort", the borough's education chief has claimed.

A desperate struggle to find homes for more than 250 young students and other people in need is under way this week.

A serving policewoman who bit almost a third of a man's ear off in a drunken nightclub brawl has been jailed for a year.

FIRST day back at work for the year, I was called into the boss's office. Face full of anguish he told me he was very sorry, but business was very bad indeed and he had no choice but to make my position redundant.

The YMCA is seeking a new base in the City of London after being given notice to leave the iconic Barbican estate, its home for the past 40 years.

Via Londonist , news of a new Hummingbird Bakery in London and free cupcakes ! Whatever your stance, cupcakes aren't going away.

London and Stamford Property, the real estate investment trust, says it has an A 800m war chest ready for investments during 2012.

There were 114 reported rapes in the 12 months up to December 2011, up from 80 in the same A period the year before.

Well, Alex Salmond is half right. England will indeed, as he suggested this week be much, much better off without Scotland.

In his latest book, Equality, Freedom and Religion , Roger Trigg , who runs the Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Kellogg College, argues: "There has been a clear trend for courts in Europe and North America to prioritise equality and non-discrimination above religion, placing the right to religious freedom in danger." He cites a ... (more)