Caledonian Park, Holloway, Islington

The Colditz like fencing of Metropolitan University (formerly World of Leather, Holloway Road)

The Kelly “Taken Out” By Assassination Team Rowena Thursby - Wednesday February 24, 2004 Michael Shrimpton, a appeared on the US Alex Jones Radio Show yesterday evening (morning, US time), and asserted that Dr David Kelly, who was found "dead in the woods" last July, did not commit suicide as claimed in the Hutton Report, but was taken out by a team of assassins brought in from abroad. Dr David Kelly became embroiled in a cauldron of government disapproval, after he spoke off the record to Andrew Gilligan, a BBC radio journalist. Kelly allegedly accused the British government of "sexing up" the case for war. Two days after being hauled before a parliamentary committee to account for his actions, his body was found in a copse two miles from his home. The official scenario has always been that this top British microbiolgist walked to the wood, took his own life by slashing his left wrist, swallowing a number of pills and lying down to die. But Shrimpton has now gone o...

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Fox in the City Did you know?... At least 28 different fox calls have been identified but it is difficult to determine what each one means. A commonly heard call is the loud, spine-chilling cry that foxes often make during the mating season. Out of control? The figures on foxes · Foxes colonised cities in the 1930s when suburban development created semi-detached houses with large gardens. The size of London's urban fox population is estimated at 10,000. · Foxes are most active from dusk to dawn. During the December-January mating season, dog foxes will howl to scare rivals away from their territory. Cubs usually appear in late March and April. Foxes born in towns rarely move to rural areas. · Controlling urban foxes is difficult and expensive. As fox mortality rates increase, vixens compensate by breeding more cubs. Killing dog foxes also encourages fights as new males compete to fill the abandoned territory, leading to noise and fouling of gardens. · Foxes will kill chickens,...

roof: plural roofs. # Rooves is commonly heard and sometimes written, e.g. Several acres of bright red rooves(George Orwell). Its written use should be avoided.

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Libby Brooks: It's not enough to say we should listen to children : "t's important not to cry 'toxic childhood' immediately. This is not solely a consequence of junk food, computer games and the Pussycat Dolls. Many of Unicef's findings can be traced back to poverty, pure and simple. But not all of them. The report also points to significant cultural factors. British society does not value its children. Since the Victorian era, they have been segregated from society, corralled into classrooms and swept off the streets. In many ways, simply to be young is to meet the definition of social exclusion: no say in the political process, not contributing directly to the economy, criminalised for offences determined by your status rather than actions, vilified by the media."

Gangs of new Britain By Olga Craig, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:07am GMT 11/02/2007 No one knows for certain which newspapers Terry Adams took. Indeed none of us knows for sure that he took any at all. What we do know, however, is that what Mr Adams did take was a very great deal of pride and satisfaction in the fact that, until last week, his name and photograph were rarely, if ever, to be found in their pages. Not that he isn't a vain man, one for whom reputation, respect and standing matter little. Quite the contrary. Adams is very proud of his notoriety among his local, north London community: what he has spent a lifetime avoiding is public recognition. No longer. This morning, Adams, the godfather behind a £200 million business built on murder, drugs and money-laundering, whose catch-phrase is "give him a slap", will wake up in Belmarsh, south London's high security prison, after admitting a five-year conspiracy to hide £1 million. While he was handed a 14-y...

Islington There are currently 11,755 people claiming incapacity benefit and 755 people claiming severe disability allowance in Islington currently. On average people claiming incapacity benefit in Islington are between the ages of 25 – 49 years old, their length of claim is 5 years or more and they live in the most deprived wards in the borough. In Islington the number of claimants who have mental health problems is 50%, (6285). Claimants are equally likely to male or female. Islington wards with the highest number of incapacity benefit claimants as recorded by JCP. Ward/Road Number of IB claimants Number unemployed for 6 months + Finsbury Park 970 895 Birnam Road 145 170 Medina Road 220 210 Biggerstaff Road 125 115 Mildmay 835 775 Woodville Road 110 105 Kingsbury Road 120 115 Canonbury 780 725 Ashby Grove 180 165 St Peters 665 575 Packington Square 120 110 Barnsbury 670 635 Collier Street 125 110 Caledonian 730 670 Stranrear Way 105 100 Holloway 925 880 Goodinge Road 130 120 Georges R...

House of Commons Friday 2 February 2007 Emily Thornberry (Islington, South and Finsbury) (Lab): What would the hon. Lady say to people in my constituency, which has the least amount of green space in the whole of Britain, and where 13,000 families are on the waiting list for housing? What hope does her Bill offer those of my constituents who have been waiting for many years for housing? Mrs. Spelman: I can give some comfort to the hon. Lady on protecting the small residue of green space that remains in many urban constituencies. The point of my Bill is that it would increase her local council’s capacity to protect what little green space she has. If she reads her own party’s most recent guidance, she will find that the preservation of open space is not referred to and that gardens are spoken about only in relation to new build. Just as she has 13,000 people on the housing waiting list in her constituency, I have 7,000 people in mine. I expect that her constituents, like mine, face the ...

six Magpies Originally uploaded by caledonianpark . One for anger Two for mirth Three for a wedding Four for a birth Five for rich Six for poor Seven for a witch I can tell you no more. Alternate versions of this counting rhyme include: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. or One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a funeral Four for a birth Five for heaven Six for hell Seven's the Devil his own sel' Sometimes (but rarely), three extra lines are added: Eight for a wish Nine for a kiss Ten for a bird that you won't want to miss. or Eight for a wish Nine for a kiss Ten for a time of Joyous Bliss

Clock Tower and Carillon Caledonian Park, Market Road, London, N7 The Italianate tower designed by J B Bunning is the only structure remaining from the huge Metropolitan Cattle Market that operated from the 1870s to 1939. The market was built on the site of Copenhagen House, a famous tavern and tea gardens that had stood there since the early 17th century.