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Posts Tagged ‘Kaya Comer-Schwartz’

Una O’Halloran officially appointed as Islington’s council leader

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 20 November 2024 | 0

Straight-talking housing chief takes top job following Kaya Comer-Schwartz’s resignation

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Housing chief Una O’Halloran named leader of Islington Labour

By islingtoncitizen | Tuesday 5 November 2024 | 0

O’Halloran replaces Kaya Comer-Schwartz, who recently quit the council for City Hall

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Junction by-election: Seven candidates vie for seat vacated by former council leader

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 4 November 2024 | 0
polling station

The vote for a new councillor in Kaya Comer-Schwartz’s old ward is scheduled for 28 November

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Government budget offers ‘light at end of tunnel’, says acting council leader

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 30 October 2024 | 0
Diarmaid Ward

Cllr Diarmaid Ward says Chancellor’s spells hope after decade of cuts to local government

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Council leader steps down to take on policing and crime job at City Hall

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 11 October 2024 | 0

Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz set to replace Sophie Linden as London’s deputy mayor for policing

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‘Salami-slicing approach’: Row erupts over Islington Council’s school closure plan

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 22 February 2024 | 0

Opposition councillors call in decision to propose a merger of two primaries

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Primary school in Islington could be axed this year as council plans move ahead

By Noora Mykkanen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 9 February 2024 | 0

Town Hall proposes merger of Montem and Duncombe schools – doing so ‘with a heavy heart’

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New council chief executive promises to deliver ‘a fairer Islington’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 6 October 2023 | 0
Victoria Lawson, Islington's new chief executive

Victoria Lawson, Hounslow’s environment and culture chief, announced as successor to Linzi Roberts-Egan

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Islington council leader ‘shocked and saddened’ over double stabbing deaths

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 30 June 2023 | 0
Met Police Investigation launched

Police given additional stop and search powers under a Section 60 order

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‘We celebrate, we remember and we protect’: Mosaic honouring Irish community’s contribution to Islington unveiled in Navigator Square

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 March 2023 | 0

Irish ambassador to UK ‘delighted’ with recognition

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‘Open up our country’: Politicians across north London challenge Whitehall over visas for Turkish and Syrian nationals

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 10 March 2023 | 0

Local leaders call for extensions and temporary visas for those affected by last month’s earthquakes

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Islington marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: ‘Remember and listen so we can build a better life’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 27 January 2023
David Herman's Buchenwald identity photograph, Herman family archive

The event, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, also remembered those murdered in other genocides

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Major plans to green up Islington win political backing – as resident calls for a referendum on LTNs

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 13 January 2023 | 0

‘We need to tackle the climate emergency,’ says Town Hall leader

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Islington leader ‘delighted’ as council invites over-70s for festive meal and music at Assembly Hall

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 5 December 2022 | 0

One hundred spots are up for grabs and applications close on 14 December

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‘People are already at breaking point’: Islington Council declares cost-of-living emergency

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 23 September 2022 | 0

Town Hall calls on government to introduce a range of support measures

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Teenage boy dies after being stabbed in Highbury Fields – with police appealing for witnesses

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 5 August 2022 | 0

Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after the boy was found injured around 9pm last night

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Survivors of historic abuse in Islington’s children’s homes can now apply for £10k support payment

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 8 June 2022 | 0
Islington Town Hall

Town Hall opens applications for anyone who suffered abuse at the homes between 1966 and 1995

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Fresh faces at Islington’s top table after Labour leader’s post-election reshuffle

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 23 May 2022 | 0

Kaya Comer-Schwartz unveils new-look executive following this month’s polls

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‘They shot her there and then’: Holocaust survivor shares horrific experience during Islington’s remembrance ceremony

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 27 January 2022 | 0

Local politicians condemn antisemitism after Harry Olmer, 94, recounts the his family’s treatment at the hands of the Nazis

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Council unveils next year’s budget with vow to ‘protect the most vulnerable’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 14 January 2022 | 0
Islington Town Hall

Finance chief Cllr Satnam Gill outlines spending plans and £6.7m in cuts with dig at ‘disastrous’ Tory government

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