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Author Archives: William Perrin
Another street tree bites the dust
Sadly yet another tree has been broken off on York Way. This one has been mainly sawed off at chest height and the top of the tree dumped in Railway Street. Not clear what happened here whether it was a … Continue reading
Guardian halts Goods Shed ‘creative space’ – shares in quinoa nibbly things plummet
The Guardian has now paused work on its creative space planned for the Goods Shed next to Waitrose according to Event Magazine who have a full piece on it. Due to open in Autumn this year the space was always … Continue reading
Local man pleads guilty to preventing lawful burial of the body in shopping trolley in the canal
Of all the appalling deaths in Kings Cross this one was the strangest for years – the body of an Italian man Sebastiano Magnanini (pictured), found last autumn in a shopping trolley in Regents Canal. (There’s a (very) Guardian background piece … Continue reading
Arrest made in Bognor Regis re Vasilaki Kakko murder off North Road
The police said last night that: >Detectives investigating the murder of 17-year-old Vasilaki Kakko in Holloway have made an arrest. The man, believed aged 20, was arrested on Monday, 30 November in Bognor Regis, West Sussex on suspicion murder by … Continue reading
Do you have any information on the murder of 17 year old Vaso Kakko near North Road, Monday night?
Another day, another senseless killing of a local teenager, this time in Yoke Close off North Road last night (Monday night). I’m lost for words really. The police have said ‘A murder investigation has been launched following the death of … Continue reading
Pro refugee demonstration at St Pancras Station 24 October #noborders
There was a disturbance at St Pancras last night as scuffles erupted around a demonstration. It was widely covered on social media and in mainstream media – here are some excerpts, I’ll try to cover both points of view. If … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, New, St Pancras redevelopment
Tagged #noborders, #stpancras
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From sex to shopping, a Kings Cross journey
Kings Cross used to be synonymous with its seedy sex industry – street workers, dodgy hotels and a Michael Porter-type cluster of sex shops and the like. The street workers seem to have gone (hopefully to somewhere safer) the hotels … Continue reading
Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s knowledge?
A couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced this great City Dashboard that puts flesh on the bones of all the ‘smart city’ and ‘big data’ guff. … Continue reading
Posted in Big developments, Current Affairs, Kings Cross local history
Tagged #opendata, dashboard, knowledgequarter
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Kings Cross Environment 