Brent

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

Campaigners bring legal challenge against Brent Council.

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.

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

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. …

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 …

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 …

The story may have broken a little late for Christmas, but glad tidings reach us from (Three?) Kingsbury, where a heavily pregnant Jubilee Line passenger went into labour on 19th December. Station staff couldn’t quite rustle up a manger, but instead ushered Julia Kowalska into …

Seems we jumped for joy too soon, back in June. We rejoiced that the Heritage Lottery Fund were ploughing £1.25 million into the restoration of this historic house where former PM Gladstone used to go to recuperate but now Boris has gone and diverted GLA …

According to reports, storms on Monday caused a 40ft long crack to appear through four floors at Wembley Stadium. “Panicked workers” described the floor shaking as the building creaked and groaned. Yet officials say Wembley remains fully operational, and that the structure is fine, the …