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Why It Matters: Boris Bikes for NW5

Whether having a ‘trust me, you can go left here’ argument with a mini-cab driver on a Friday night, or a ‘quickest way to the …

Community

Community Pinboard: Giles Set To Spill the Beans! Plus Grafton Soft-launch & Brewery’s winter plans revealed

1. The Grafton Finally Opens (Softly) Tomorrow. Says co-owner Susie: ‘Folks can come down for a sneaky peek ahead of official launch on 28th (although …

Shopping

Wednesday Picture: A Brief History of Queen’s Crescent

‘Barefoot, hungry children, clad in rags, were a common sight as they raked over the refuse heaps of Queen’s Crescent market in seach of half-rotten …

Food

Free Weekend? Olive-Tasting at Borough Market with 9 year old Amelie

Our diminutive critic is back! Prodigious young Amelie, 9, finally follows up her hugely successful debut column ‘The Olive Diaries’ with a trip to world-famous …

Must Do

Free Weekend? How To Do a London Canal Holiday Lock-Free (Back to the Manor)

We love the canal here at KTHQ. East or west, we’ve walked it all. And every time, we stare longingly at the narrowboats and ponder …

Community

Community Pinboard: Local Music Special (plus lots of food & booze, of course)

This week we thought we’d zero in on the rude health of local music scene. So we’ve plucked out some choice highlights, which sit alongside …

Community

Lady Somerset Road Street Party 2012 in Pictures

Local luminaries proliferated at the sun-drenched annual bash

Community

Community Pinboard: Vote West Kentish Town – and Scrufts, Tea, Disco, Take-out

1. Vote Kentish Town West. When we reported that West Kentish Town had been omitted from the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum boundary, all hell broke …

Community

Ticker Tape…

Heard a rumour? Snapped anything interesting? Email, Facebook or tweet us to make next week’s Ticker Tape. You’ll be fully credited of course: info@kentishtowner.co.uk @kentishtowner

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Community Pinboard: Ice Cream & Dandies, Veg & Ale

1. Indulge in an Ice Cream Daydream. Like some kind of crazy-beautiful gelato Willy Wonka fantasy come true, the King’s Cross Ice Cream Festival really …

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