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Residents with experience of poverty to help create lasting solutions (Islington London Borough Council)

Public Technologies 23 Feb 2026
Islington is uniting residents with experience of the struggle against poverty with community and business leaders to help create lasting, potentially radical solutions ... Cllr Una O'Halloran, Leader of Islington Council, said.
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Dear Keir, from one lawyer to another…

Islington Tribune 23 Feb 2026
Open letter to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. Dear Keir,. When you were a criminal defence barrister you were held in high regard as an educator on the importance of human rights ... You may recall that you even urged their expansion. ... Yours sincerely,.
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Eze and Gyokeres at the double as Gunners thrash Spurs

Islington Tribune 23 Feb 2026
Premier League. TOTTENHAM 1 (Kolo Muani, 34). ARSENAL 4 (Eze 32, 61, Gyokeres 47, 90+4). ARSENAL started this north London derby victory feeling the pressure at the top as Manchester City find their stride ... He said. “There is still a lot of work to do.
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Police set to probe ‘school wars’ posts on social media

Islington Tribune 22 Feb 2026
“I was freaking out and thinking ‘should I send them to school’,” said mum Alicia Perez, who lives in Highbury ... The videos first listed schools in Hackney, but have since spread to boroughs across London, including Islington ... ....
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Food scheme seeks to offer more than crumbs of comfort

Islington Tribune 22 Feb 2026
Islington Food Partnership grew out of the pandemic and has more than 200 members ... Jean’s Cafe is part of the Islington Food Partnership, a network of food banks, community meals, schools, businesses ...
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Phone addiction warning over children’s mental wellbeing

Islington Tribune 21 Feb 2026
UNFETTERED access to smartphones is damaging children’s wellbeing, warned a child’s mental health expert at an Islington primary school ... Eden, who now hopes to push for similar change in Islington.
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Review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Madeleine Worrall and Mark Addy in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ... Harold Fry (Mark Addy) is an ordinary man living with his wife Maureen (Jenna Russell), both of them quietly nursing regret and grief ... Until April 18. HaroldFryMusical.com ....
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‘Detestable as women’: feminist writer who had sharp words for the Pankhursts

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Gertrude Atherton. WHILE Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s statue in Victoria Gardens has been a beacon for the Suffragette movement since its erection in 1930, not all feminists have regarded her favourably ... Gertrude once said ... As she explained ... ....
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Review: The Shitheads, at Royal Court Upstairs

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Peter Clements and Annabel Smith in The Shitheads ... The butchery is viscerally conveyed in the Royal Court’s studio space. Set in prehistoric Britain, there are two types of humans ... Both speak a child-like, contemporary vernacular ... Until March 14 ... ....
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Man on the Run: absorbing documentary feels very true to the down-to-earth Beatle

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Paul McCartney in Man on the Run. MAN ON THE RUN. Directed by Morgan Neville. Certificate. PG. ☆☆☆☆☆. THEY may have split 56 years ago, two key members may be long dead, but The Beatles remain a lodestone in our nation’s cultural landscape ... ....
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Review: Man and Boy, at Dorfman Theatre

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Ben Daniels in Man and Boy. TERENCE Rattigan’s 1963 play about the downfall of an international financier is certainly timely, and one can see why director Anthony Lau considered it ripe for revival ... Until March 14. nationaltheatre.org.uk ....
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On the Hampstead Heath Front

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Jay Stuart. AS we approach the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion, the reality of peace for Ukraine seems to be as distant as ever, while a kind of bad news fatigue has set in for many people in the UK and concern has waned into apathy ... ....
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Michael White’s classical news: Benjamin Britten; Things Invisible to See; Brodsky Quartet; Boris Giltburg

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Hamish McLaren ... Contorted faces, open mouths and spit are better from a distance. Subsequently reworked for the stage, the piece has lingered in the shade of Britten’s other music-theatre works, dismissed as preachily polemical ... gsmd.ac.uk ... fom.org.uk.
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Vivid, special restaurant evokes an aged elegance without stuffiness

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
Imaani and her band at The Wet Fish, where there’s a passion for creating the feel of a bohemian underground jazz bar. THE Wet Fish needs no introduction ... Romantic tables for two are nestled, cabaret-style, around an intimate stage ... The Wet Fish ... ....
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Ted over heels in love with old toys

Islington Tribune 20 Feb 2026
The centre officially launched yesterday (Thursday) – with a visit from the Teddy Bear Ladies from BBC’s The Repair Shop – but toy enthusiasts young and old have already been travelling to Islington ...
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