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Olympic Sport Lowdown: Football

Kick the ball into the goal: What you need to know about Olympics football.

(c) Darren Lehane Street

News And Pictures From St Patrick’s Day 2012

It wasn’t all about the drinking…

On the beach

Preview: Nuclear Film Festival

Movies and and panel discussions about nukes.

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Kensal Flea @ Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green

Brent’s best pub hosts a summer fair this Saturday

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Top 10 Things To Do In The Borough Of Brent

Continuing our tour of the capital’s boroughs, guest blogger Juliet Kinsman picks out her highlights of Brent.

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Save Our Libraries: The Fight Goes To The High Court

Campaigners bring legal challenge against Brent Council.

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Alan Bennett Joins Brent Libraries Fundraiser

Campaigners are raising funds for a legal challenge to Brent’s decision to close six libraries, while Lewisham has turned three over to private hands.

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More London Councils Vote-In Huge Spending Cuts

Protest across London last night, as five more councils vote in cuts.

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Cat God Appears In Willesden Library

Cat’s Brentertainment Brent Museum. We’ve barely heard of it, despite having lived in a neighbouring borough for nine years. When Diamond Geezer paid a visit to the small collection, housed in Willesden Library, he was the only person there. Not even a member of staff. …

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New Mortuary For North London

Fans of CSI disappointed that there is still not a CSI: London on TV can take morbid pleasure in a new state-of-the-art underground mortuary in Haringey. Opened on Monday this week, the whizzy £3million design comes with a sweltering amount of detail: – twice as …

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Wembley Gets Nod For Champions League Final

As we predicted last year, the national stadium will get to warm up for the Olympics by hosting the 2011 European Cup final. It will be London’s first such final since the Barcelona-Sampdoria game of 1992, in an era when English teams, post-Heysel, had only …