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Food

Why It Matters: Harry’s Fine Foods, Kentish Town Road

Do you know how lucky we are to have a butcher and a fishmonger in Kentish Town Road? Something like 70 per cent of both …

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Why It Matters: South Hampstead (Where?)

Sandwiched between Kilburn and West Hampstead, bordering Finchley Road and often mistaken for Swiss Cottage – even by those who live there – lies South …

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Why It Matters: Queen’s Crescent Community Association

Despite living in NW5 for nearly four years, I’m ashamed to say it’s only recently that I’ve really grown to love my local area. Prior …

Community

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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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 …

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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Why It Matters: Dartmouth Park (the actual park, that is)

Nestled in the armpit between Junction Road and Dartmouth Park Hill is one of London’s lesser known and refreshingly unconventional parks. Most Londoners – if …

Community

Why It Matters: Protecting our dogs from dangerous dogs

As a supposed ‘nation of dog lovers’ we must campaign against an outdated law that says our dogs are not worth protecting from other, violent dogs

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