A FEARED ‘super-pub’ in the heart of Camden Town is due to be given the green light by planning officials – despite the Town Hall’s campaign against 24-hour drinking because of binge drinking in the area.
Shell-shocked residents are stunned that experts in the council’s planning department have approved plans to demolish the Crown and Goose pub and the neighbouring New Camden Snooker Club on the corner site of Delancey Street and Arlington Road.
More than 550 protest letters have piled up at the Town Hall objecting to the plans which open up the possibility of a large bar trading underneath a new block of flats.
Among those against the plan are Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson, entertainer Julian Clary, comedian Phil Jupitus and members of the pop group Madness.

A TEENAGER was stabbed outside Hampstead School on Friday – less than 24 hours after residents pleaded for a police officer to be stationed at the school full time.
The 14-year-old boy, who is not a pupil at the school in Westbere Road, West Hampstead, was treated in hospital after being stabbed twice in the abdomen at lunchtime.

SWIMMERS groups have united against cost cutting proposals by Heath bosses, the Corporation of London, that would involve either closure or charging for the famous ponds – with an overwhelming No.

A HOUSING association has secured a land deal for Lyndhurst Hall, the Edwardian block in Kentish Town which has been used a nursery, union base and social centre.

IF you are struggling with double vision then it might not be the best doctors’ surgery to go for a check-up – but patients of identical twin doctors in West Hampstead say they will be sadly missed after announcing that they are hanging up their stethoscopes.