Cycling correspondent @Cycle_Whamp clipped in his shoes and checked out a Camden SkyRide. Do with comments or suggestions for bike-related articles. Since 2009, Sky has been active in sponsoring British cycling. This culminated with Bradley Wiggins’ and Chris Froome’s back-to-back … Continue reading →
Chez Chantal is to become a Headmasters hairdressers. More serious research into the gaps in the West Hampstead market there. Maybe it has set its sights on stealing Bank of England governor Mark Carney away from Mill Lane Barbers. Micro … Continue reading →
Four more men were arrested in connection with the murder of Sabrina Moss; one has been charged. Mario’s on Broadhurst Gardens is finally set for redevelopment – but the whole block will have to come down first! A very impressive … Continue reading →
If anyone still sent actual letters, then the local back-and-forth about the chopping down of the trees on and near the Ballymore site would have accounted for a small copse all by itself. Mercifully, it’s only been everyone’s inboxes taking … Continue reading →
You’d think a bench would be an uncontroversial object. Just a few pieces of wood, not getting in anyone’s way. Doing its bench thing. You’d be wrong, so terribly terribly wrong. KOVE, which stands for Kilburn Older Voices Exchange, together … Continue reading →
If you’re playing catch-up on the interminable story of Gondar Gardens, which progesses as fast as the slow worms that have previously come to its rescue, then please read this succinct summary of where we stood back in June. In … Continue reading →
I get asked regularly about Mario’s. Mario’s is the long-closed Greek restaurant on the corner of Broadhurst Gardens and West Hampstead Mews. It may soon be remembered only from photos. The outer wall is straight. The building less so! It’s … Continue reading →
The Royal National Institute for the Blind’s (RNIB) campaign to promote reading, Read For RNIB Day, is having its biggest nationwide event on 11th October. As part of this campaign, some local residents are taking over the normal Black Lion … Continue reading →
Today is National Poetry Day. You may not know that Fortune Green has an official poet. Ted Booth is the artist in residence for 2013-14, and has already written a couple of poems, which you can read here, including one … Continue reading →
[updated Oct 4th 1.15pm] The Met has arrested four men on suspicion of murdering Sabrina Moss following a pre-planned operation in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Armed officers were involved, and they had warrants for five addresses across north-west … Continue reading →
