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SCRAMBLE IS ON FOR SCHOOLS
PARENTS and pupils across Camden are facing a scramble for school places at the borough’s top-rated secondaries.
The panic has led to renewed calls for a new school to be built.
With the waiting lists for places more than 100-strong once again at each of the borough’s nine secondary schools, pupils living more than a mile from the front gates have found it all but impossible to make it into their first choice school.
Precise figures for the number of children searching for a last-minute place are being kept under wraps by officials until a full council meeting on Monday.
 
‘WE DON'T WANT DRUG UNIT HERE’
FEARFUL residents in Mildmay have joined a campaign to fight plans to house a drug centre for 65 addicts in the heart of a residential area.
Protesters – who include a TV arts producer – accuse Islington council of “quietly” wanting to relocate the centre, opposite two schools and an adventure playground, to leafy King Henry’s Walk.
Susan Monaco, who produces TV documentaries featuring art critic Brian Sewell, said the protest group were concerned that the centre may attract undesirables to the neighbourhood.
 
‘DESPERATE’ CASH PLAN
WESTMINSTER City Council stands to make tens of millions of pounds as it prepares to move out of its two main offices.
The council not only wants to sell the historic Council House in Marylebone Road, it also wants to leave its main centre – City Hall in Victoria Street. But the Labour opposition has accused the council of being being desperate to make money to cope with the “cash crisis” caused by the collapse in revenue following the reduction in the numbers of parking tickets issued.
The council’s finance scrutiny committee is meeting on Tuesday to discuss their plans.
   
   
 
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