• Islington shop in trouble over under-age knife sale

  By tikka_massala

  All well and good unless they start clamping down on those of us who just LOOK young! I was so...

            

   

  By abi_silvester at 23:05 on 27/01/12

  

  Traders in Islington are being urged to check identification when selling knives after a shop was prosecuted for making an underage sale. A 16-year-old was sold a pack of five kitchen knives by a member of staff at Mass General Store, 415-416 Holloway Road, who failed to check the girl's age. The teenager was taking part in a test-purchasing exercise organised by Islington Council's trading standards team on February 5 2011.  The...

• Steep rise in mobile phone theft in Islington

  By greyj

  *vigilant

            

   

  By abi_silvester at 22:56 on 12/12/11

  

  Police are reporting a dramatic increase of mobile phone thefts in Islington, noting that the latest version of the iPhone has become a particular target for thieves. Incidents where a mobile handset was stolen increased by 800 cases in the year ending March 31 2011, representing a 34 per cent rise. One particular tactic being favoured by mobile phone thieves is approaching pedestrians in the street, robbing them of their handsets and...

• London Riots - the view from Islington

  By JulieGK

  These riots are awful and I am sure the majority of people involved have nothing to do with the...

            

   

  By abi_silvester at 23:36 on 07/08/11

  

  It's been a difficult weekend for North Londoners as that riotiong that began in Tottenham High Street on Saturday night has sparked a spate of criminal activity all over London. The noise from sirens and helicopters has been almost constant today, and many residents in the capital are feeling distinctly uneasy. So far Islington has not seen much in the way of violent scenes, but as reports of spinoff activity takes place in Enfield,...

• Caught on cameraphone: the two 'laughing' Islington bike thieves

  By abi_silvester

  No - just reporting a story I spotted on Twitter.

            

   

  By abi_silvester at 11:20 on 04/07/11

  

  These two young men were seen in the act of stealing this bike from outside The Alwyne Castle pub on St Paul's Road, Islington, on Sunday 3rd July. Its owner, 27-year-old TV director James Jones, who uses the Twitter handle @rjamesjones has been appeling for witnesses using this photograph - taken at the scene of the crime (we believe) by the pub landlord: According to Jones, one of the thieves then 'laughed as he cycled off'. The...

• Delivery driver injured in clothes line 'prank'

  By tikka_massala

  Wasn't that in a film!?

            

   

  By abi_silvester at 14:37 on 28/02/11

  

  A pizza delivery driver has narrowly escaped serious injury after a gang of youths tied a length of rope between two lampposts, creating a hazard in the road. The incident happened on the evening of Sunday 20 Feb in Lofting Road off Liverpool Road. It is believed that the gang had specifically targeted their victim - a 28 year-old pizza delivery driver - as they pulled at one end of the rope in order to tighten it as he drove past....

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