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BOOZE TAB – YOU PAY
TAX-PAYERS in Camden are facing a weighty bill to keep the government’s controversial new licensing regime on track.
Late licences kick in for the first time tonight (Thursday) with dozens of pubs and nightclubs across the borough taking advantage of an end to fixed opening hours.
But while punters revel in ordering late drinks, residents – many of whom have objected to the pubs near their homes gaining later hours – have been told they will have to stump up for extra taxes to pay for the new system.
 
 
ROBBED BY 8-YEAR-OLD WITH KNIFE
VIOLENT crime reached new depths this week after police revealed an eight-year-old boy had robbed a man at knifepoint.
The child, only 4ft 4in tall, was part of a five-strong gang who jumped from bushes, robbed and beat their 18-year-old victim outside Bushfield House on the Highbury Estate, in Highbury New Park.
Hardened police officers, including Detective Chief Inspector Geoff Woolgar, head of Islington CID, was shocked by the incident involving someone so young.
 
 
‘DON’T SEND HIM BACK’
TEACHERS and pupils have mounted a campaign this week to stop the deportation of one of their sixth-form students and friend.
Behnam, 19, who studies at Quintin Kynaston in St John’s Wood, is facing five years in prison and 70 lashes if he is made to return to his home country of Iran by the Home Office. Behnam and his family moved to London legitimately in 2002 when his father started working at a British shipping company. But in August Behnam and his mother Masoumeh (who have asked for their surnames not to be printed) were sentenced in absentia by an Iranian Revolutionary Court to five and seven year jail sentences and lashes if they return.



Angelino's finest are put to the test

WE came across Angelino Wines, sandwiched between two colourful and aggressively self-promoting Australian wine sellers, at Islington’s London Wine Event at the end of October.
Its owner is Farrell Anglin, whose imagination was caught by a lecture on the history of wine making at Southgate College.

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