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Community Pinboard: E.Mono to launch Patisserie

Welcome to a new item on The Kentishtowner – by popular demand. Got a local event coming up? Paste it on our Facebook Page, or …

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Free Weekend Special: More Street Fairs Than You Can Chuck A Greased Pig At

You can’t beat the Great British country fete, they cry to us city dwellers. A stroll to the village green for colourful maypole dancing. Jolly …

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As a supposed ‘nation of dog lovers’ we must campaign against an outdated law that says our dogs are not worth protecting from other, violent dogs

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Life Tips #2. John, 60, Market Stallholder

1. ‘If you’re a jewellery seller, don’t ask for a stall nearest the entrance. It’s the first one customers see so they’ll walk straight by, …

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Why Flapjacks Cafe matters

‘I’m heartened that it exists, that there are patient, caring, supportive people who want to work there and help their colleagues’

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A Pizza Good News (sorry)

Now, we know that everyone’s feeling the January blues, and that the most ridiculous media invention ever is just around the corner (“Blue Monday”, on …

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The Friday Picture: Pizza Express Proposed redevelopment

Just look at this picture of the proposed redevelopment of the 1929 former North London Polytechnic building, as annotated by understandably disgusted residents at 1 …

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Queen’s Crescent: Future is shining?

We make no apologies for running another Queen’s Crescent story this week. After all, as the most deprived area in NW5 it needs all the …

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Duck, NW5 – here comes the Crawl.

Or should that be tortoise? So this year they’ve thrown Kentish Town into the mix. Yes, for the first time, the industrious, annual Camden Crawl …

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