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Islington Council is today (Tuesday, 25 May) launching extra financial help for pubs and music, comedy, theatre and dance venues hit by Covid-19 restrictions.

A rogue builder who quoted a pensioner £35,000 for work that was worth a fraction of that price has been ordered to repay his victim, following a successful prosecution by Islington Council.    

Islington Council is supporting Nubian Jak’s crowd funding campaign to raise funds to install a statue at Whittington Hospital in honour of Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives.   

New pop-up clinics in Islington will make it easier for people who are eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine – especially those who are elderly, homeless, vulnerable or in need of support – to get it closer to home.

Cllr Troy Gallagher has become the first Irish-born Mayor of Islington, and has chosen the theme for his mayoral year to be “A New Tomorrow”.

Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz was officially appointed as the Leader of Islington Council at last night's Annual Council meeting (Thursday 20 May) – making history as the first Black woman to take the role.

People-friendly streets neighbourhoods in Canonbury East and Clerkenwell Green have helped to create greener, safer streets for everyone, mid-trial monitoring reports have revealed.      

The new Highbury Pool was officially opened yesterday (Tuesday, 18 May) by Islington Mayor Cllr Janet Burgess, nearly three years after the facility was hit by a devastating fire.   

Islington Council has extended consultation on a proposed support payment scheme for survivors of abuse suffered while placed by the council in one of its children’s homes from 1966 to 1995.

Islington is launching a new, free, dementia-friendly health walk and inviting people to become Dementia Friends in Dementia Action Week (17 May - 23 May).