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Why It Matters: Dog on dog attacks – how’s Pepper?

This week DEFRA close their consultation on ‘irresponsible dog ownership’ (scroll down for the points in full). So, with it being nearly two months since …

Life Tips

Life Tips #18: Vincent, Metalworker & Sculptor

Don’t Look Back. My Mum and Dad came over from Jamaica in the 60s with the dream of a better life. It was a bit …

Why It Matters

Why It Matters Special: Alma Street Fair 2012

Once again, the organisers of the annual Alma Street Fair effortlessly show us how to run a ‘hyperlocal’ festival that manages to be buzzy, peaceful, …

Community

Life Tips special: Green Your Gaff with Jon Cowdrill

I’m Jon, The Kentishtowner’s new Green Home Guru. Over the next few months I hope to save you some cash – and make your home …

Why It Matters

Why It Matters: Hyperlocal Media, Kentish Town and beyond

As loyal readers will have witnessed, The Kentishtowner – north London’s only daily magazine – continues to develop at a phenomenal rate. This matters. Not …

Life Tips

Life Tips #17: Eileen, 92, Retired Nurse Matron

‘Take every chance you get to go anywhere and everywhere’

Music

Why It Matters: Gigging for the Over 50s

When you get to a certain age, you still kid yourself that your peers are somehow older than you. After all, you are young. Nothing …

LGBT

Life Tips #16: Wayne Dhesi, 30, founder of rucomingout

1. Complement each other. A really great thing about gay relationships is that the basic differences between men and women are simply not there. My …

Art

Life Tips #15: Julia Riddiough, Artist

1. You’ve got to Speculate to Accumulate in this life. So declared our belated and much admired friend P.G. Wodehouse and I think that I’m …

Community

Why It Matters special: Who will Kentishtowners vote for as Mayor?

We don’t, as a rule, get too involved in politics. After all there are plenty of other media outlets to satisfy that particular vice. We …

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