Tag: crime
BTP seeks new intake for Police Cadet Scheme
The British Transport Police (BTP) is calling on young people to sign up as cadets. BTP wants young people at the forefront of engaging...
Let’s ‘take knife crime out of politics’, say Islington Conservatives
Islington Conservatives have launched a new campaign calling on all political parties to “take knife crime out of politics”, writes John Abiona.
Young people invited to submit creative ideas for Holloway prison site women’s building
Young people at schools and youth organisations are to be encouraged to have a say in plans for a Women’s Building on the Holloway Prison redevelopment site by Community Plan for Holloway (CP4H), writes Sophie Huskisson
Exclusive: How the Astrosnacks “hoax” email alert emerged in Islington and spread to schools across London
Warnings of a supposedly dangerous sweet called Astrosnacks have caused widespread concern across London, despite authorities failing to verify the claims. The messages were sent out by schools and councils, and later shared widely on social media. Islington Now has seen a copy of the warning that was first circulated to parents of pupils at a school in Archway in late February.
This week in Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court
An Archway resident "fears for his safety", and a Canonbury man has breached a Sexual Harm Protection Order in the latest news from court
Police officers released from hospital
Four police officers have been discharged from hospital following an incident involving a knife on Liverpool Road last Saturday night.
Alex Traykov, 19, has...