Category Archives: Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc

Kings Cross is certainly on the change and the Gazette is labelling the area as a ‘Party Capital’ – read about it here.  The owners of the Ruby Lounge on Caledonian Road give a good interview. The changes in entertainment … Continue reading →

The Islington Gazette (in its print edition, not the online one) records the opening of an inquest into the deah of a graffiti aritist at Caledonian Roaad and Barnsbury station on the North London Line.  George King, an unemployed graphic … Continue reading →

There has been a big improvement in the condition of the undercrofts of 29-35 Outram Place since HfI put a gate up to stop cars using the area, after months of nagging by reisdents and Councillors.  The amount of sex … Continue reading →

Shocking news in the Islington Gazette of a murder at the Egg nightclub on York Way/Vale Royal.  The full story is here.  Some comments attributed to residents in the nearby Maiden Lane estate about drug dealing and noise though raise … Continue reading →

Some pretty remarkable reporting in the national press of corruption amongst prison staff at the ‘Ville on the Cally.  Some 14 staff have been suspended in one go.  The main story is in the Guardian here and a good comment … Continue reading →

If you were around Gifford Street near the entrance to Bingfield Park at about 7:30 pm on Tuesday 25 July did you see a man robbing a woman of her handbag or someone runnign awy. See the (belated) incident board … Continue reading →

There has been very little car crime on Rufford Street in the last year or two.  But in the last three days two cars have had glass smashed – not for theft as nothing was taken – but simply vandalism.  … Continue reading →

It seems that the rough sleeping drug takers/sex workers who were moved on from Gifford Street yesterday may now have alighted upon the undercroft garages of 29-35 Outram Place about 150 yards away. Working with Homes for  Islington, residents have … Continue reading →