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Council defends maintenance of 8.5% cap to scheme as providing residents with opportunity to adapt to government cuts

Impact of ‘open markets’ in Finsbury Park and Kings Cross on drug use stats questioned by councillors

A rare glimpse at ‘quirky and wholly modern’ prints produced by the Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory in the 1950s

Councillors look again at proposals as residents continue to raise concerns over ‘noise, pollution and traffic danger’

Council to review council tax and business rate collection policy

Town Hall plans for site to be used for ‘much-needed housing’

Local MP Jeremy Corbyn joins Hackney’s political leaders to grill company bosses over their response to last week’s catastrophe

Councillors question ‘sustainability’ of temporary structure

Council convenes ‘action group’ of small and medium businesses in fight for fair pay

Move prompted by central government’s lifting of HRA borrowing cap as councillors seek to lift £6m ceiling for expenditure

This young wine bar, serving up tapas-style grub, is ‘hopefully set to become a local institution’

Plans put forward as part of wider NHS project redeveloping St Pancras Hospital and relocating Moorfields

Weekly rates for new tenancies stand at over £18 as campaigners call for London-wide transparency over how charges are set

Town Hall environment boss pledges to ‘take on’ fossil fuel companies

Town Hall votes unanimously to oppose no deal Brexit ‘in the strongest terms’

Motion calls for 10 per cent pay rise for local authority and school employees and £10 minimum wage

Byelaw to be voted on next week as Town Hall attempts balance between barbecue users’ freedoms and concerns of locals

Music space with capacity for 150 set to host DJs from Soho store Sister Ray

Viv Albertine speaks out with Fairbridge Road residents over ‘unacceptable’ impact from planned refuse store

Transport boss ‘strongly urges’ Islington Council and TfL to alter plans amidst warnings of increased traffic flow

Town Hall leaves council tax relief ‘unchanged’ as Greens call for support for poorest residents

Calls made for ‘different approach’ to youngsters involved in drug crime

Lithography from Leningrad, Estorick Collection: ‘A far cry from the drab stereotype of the Soviet Union’

Town Hall set to make decision on controversial Holloway Road office block

Drovers Centre to close over costs despite users’ opposition

Finsbury Park flood: Local politicians put ‘serious concerns’ to Thames Water

‘Rooms off the back of a lorry’: Modular replacement for Waterlow Building approved

Islington racing to become London’s first ‘Living Wage Place’ by end of 2019

Town Hall gears up for unlimited spending on council home purchases

Vins, Canonbury, food review: ‘Luxurious nibbling, if a little pricey’

Disused Waterlow building could make way for temporary medical training centre

London Tenants Federation calls out Town Hall over high service charges

Extinction Rebellion calls on councillors to join them in nailing declarations to Town Hall doors

‘Utterly bloody disgraceful’: Islington councillors unite in condemnation of Prime Minister

Councillors to vote on ‘fully funded and proper’ pay rise for council workers

Council plan crackdown on Highbury Fields barbecues as calls for full ban continue

Team behind award-winning music venues launches new late night music pub in Islington

Punk guitarist in bin dispute over plans for Holloway Road office block

‘Possibly iconic’ new look for Old Street station approved – but Hackney concerns remain