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TRAGEDY OF LITTLE BABY ALBIE
AN inquiry is underway after an eight-month-old baby boy died of meningitis just hours after he was discharged from hospital, his parents having been told he was suffering from tonsilitis.
The devastated parents of Albie Jago, who died last Monday, have lodged an official complaint against University College Hospital in Bloomsbury – one of the government’s flagship Foundation Trusts – and the hospital has begun its own investigation.
The parents claim the hospital’s specialist children’s accident and emergency unit was closed.
The tragedy unfolded when mother Sam Johns, who lives in Bayham Street in Camden Town, and who has worked as a cashier at the tills in Marks and Spencer’s on Camden High Street for 15 years, visited the West End to do her Christmas shopping. She noticed Albie was looking unwell.
 
 
ADONIS IS A GONNIS
LORD Adonis – in charge of the government’s flagship city academy education reforms – has been told he cannot make any rulings on an Islington school due to a potential conflict of interest, revealed by a Tribune investigation.
He will have to hand over responsibility over the future of Islington Green School – applying for academy status – to another education minister, we can disclose. This follows revelations by the Tribune that his children, who attend a nearby primary school, could go to Islington Green in the future. Lord Adonis also has strong ties with the borough, living only one mile away from school. His children currently attend a Canonbury primary school. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) say that because his children will soon be eligible to attend Islington Green it represents a clear conflict of interest.
 
 
‘IT SHOULD BE MURDER’
FRIENDS of the former Soho pub manager David Morley – kicked to death by a gang of ‘happy slapping’ thugs – have expressed their shock that an Old Bailey jury has failed to find anyone guilty of murder.
In bars and shops in the West End, where Mr Morley – known as Sinders – was well-known for his kindness and generosity, friends yesterday (Thursday) were angry at Wednesday’s manslaughter verdicts following a six week trial.
Mr Morley died from 44 separate injuries after his head was booted “like a football” by the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old girl.
Reece Sargeant, 21, a Covent Garden shop worker, Darren Case, 18, a six-foot three-inch tall 17-year-old youth and the heavily built, brown- haired girl, now 15, and all from Kennington, were found guilty of manslaughter and plotting grievous bodily harm on victims and will be sentenced for the killing on January 23.



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