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Abbey Road sign goes for £37,200 at auction

Abbey Road sign that is for sale in February 2020

Heritage

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An eager collector shocked auctioneers by spending £37,200 on a street sign last week. At an online auction featuring many street signs from across Westminster, an unnamed overseas bidder bought an Abbey Road sign for the five-figure price -...
Kaleb Hanson has been encouraging his friends to help him raise money for NHS charities.

Charity News

Hampstead schoolboy's £1,500 NHS 'bake and create' fundraiser

Sam Volpe

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Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq (right) with then Ham&High editor Emily Banks at a march for Nazanin in 2017

Free Nazanin | Opinion

We must pray for Nazanin's return – and keep shouting her name

Emily Banks

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with a cake she baked under house arrest in Tehran. 

Free Nazanin

Free Nazanin: Pressure on government rises as end of sentence approaches

Sam Volpe

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A 2018 fire at the Orwell building, in Camden's West Hampstead Square development.

London Fire Brigade | Special Report

First-time buyers fear ruin as 'dream' flats fail fire safety test

Charles Thomson

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Barnet Council leader Dan Thomas said discrimination, prejudice or hateful comments “should not be t

Coronavirus

Covid-19 surge testing in East Finchley after South African variant appears

Sam Volpe

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Coldfall Wood

Environment News

Petition to save oak and hornbeam trees in Coldfall Wood

Will Durrant

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Al fresco dining will return to Westminster as lockdown restrictions are eased

Outdoor dining set to return to St John's Wood

André Langlois

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Forum '71 protesters upset at sewage problems at the Kenwood Ladies' Pond. Picture: Forum '71

Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath ponds: Price for discounted swimming sees sharp rise

Sam Volpe

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The Royal Free Hospital in Pond Street

Coronavirus

Covid-19: Area around Royal Free one of few in UK to avoid deaths

Sam Volpe

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Cllr Adam Jogee, Catherine West MP and Lewis Freeman with Paul Saxton on his final day selling newspapers in Crouch End.

People

'Paul the Paper' shuts up shop in Crouch End for the final time

Sam Volpe

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Recently restored railings along North Hill, Highgate.

Highgate's Victorian 'pineapple' railings repaired and restored.

Will Durrant

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Cllr Richard Olszewski and Cllr Charles Adje.

Council

Camden and Haringey approve council tax rises amid Covid-19 impact

Sam Volpe

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Leila Roy in 2015

Leila Roy: 'A person of compassion, empathy, loyalty and civic solidarity'

André Langlois

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Wai Tsang and Wenwen Pan

Crime

Jail for 'callous' Maida Vale couple who ran brothels

Sam Volpe

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Arabella Duffy, in character for her history videos

Education News

WATCH: Hampstead 8-year-old teaches history to audience of thousands

André Langlois

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The number of Covid-19 patients has fallen again at the Royal Free and Whittington hospital trusts.

Coronavirus

Patients being treated in hospital for Covid falls by a quarter

Charles Thomson

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Author John le Carré

Hampstead Heath

Call to remember John Le Carré during Hampstead Heath celebrations

André Langlois

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Bibi Khan, on the Ham&High Podcast

Podcast

'The community has given me strength,' says mosque president

André Langlois

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Police at a stabbing in Kilburn High Road

Knife Crime

Two teenagers stabbed in Kilburn and South Hampstead in separate attacks

Nathalie Raffray

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The St Jude's weathervane

New weathervane for St Jude's after toppling by Storm Barney

Will Durrant

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Dozens of shoplifting offences have been reported on or around Muswell Hill Broadway. Picture: Googl

Reader Letters | Opinion

Thanks, traffic, Women's Day, U3A, Haverstock Hill and Covid

Readers' letters

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A Covid-19 AstraZenaca vaccine at the NHS Nightingale facility at the Excel Centre, London

Coronavirus

'Real disappointment' over uptake of Covid vaccine among care home staff

Simon Allin, Local Democracy Reporter

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Leila Roy

Leila Roy tributes: 'We will miss her energy and her big heart'

André Langlois

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Mik Scarlet, 55, from Camden Town

Camden Council

Camden disabled resident on fears over Haverstock Hill cycle lanes

Michael Boniface

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Families eligible for free school meals will be able to claim £25 food vouchers per child over the C

Haringey Council | Opinion

A progressive budget for the next twelves months and beyond

Cllr Charles Adje, White Lane ward, Haringey Council

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North London is blessed with woodlands

Environment News | Opinion

Woodland is being damage - time to show some respect

Clare James

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From left: Nathan Wanzola, Luke Lopes Newmarch, Remon Reid-Herry, Jack Lawlor and Ivan d'Avoine 

Football

Gospel Oak Football Club: A team with roots firmly in the community

Michael Boniface

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson watches as Jennifer Dumasi is injected with the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covi

NHS | Opinion

Care managers have to make it a priority that staff are vaccinated

Mary Langan, SCALD

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Aileen "never shied away from telling the truth"

Obituary

Aileen Hammond obituary: 'Force of nature' and social justice campaigner

John Saynor, Judith Gubbay and Phil Turner

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