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The Holborn Job Club meets every other Friday at 10.30am. We are all facing difficult economic times, many businesses are struggling and local people are losing their jobs. Research shows that the best way to find another job is through friends, family or social networks. The Club has been set up to help people expand their...

Pulblished on Sept 2, local resident Alexi Sayle's latest book is a memoir of his early life. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalin-Ate-Homework-Alexei-Sayle/dp/0340919574 Frank Cottrell Boyce reviews Alexei Sayle's book: Stalin Ate My Homework I knew that Alexei's family were communists and I thought this would be an account of a p...

Cyclists who ride on pavements are being targeted by private wardens in a new crackdown on anti-social behaviour. Businesses have ordered their street 'rangers'to stop rogue riders amid fears that the Mayor's bike hire scheme will increase problems in central London. People in Holborn and Bloomsbury are being encouraged to rep...

Aspiring musicians in London now have another public arena in which to be discovered- the Brunswick! Brunswick Live is inviting musicians to come along'and perform in centre throughout the Summer. To kick start the Brunswick Live music event, the band Miccoli, who are raising money and awareness for the British Heart Foundatio...

On 12/13 June 2010, 2,500 visitors streamed into Cockpit Yard's Holborn studios to meet, mingle and shop. The event was bursting with new designs and creative activity. See the snaps by photographer Roshan Singh. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43803199@N06/sets/72157624255141340/show/

Here is a message from Arthur Potts Dawson of  The People's Supermarket The whole concept of The People's Supermarket is to sell good food at good prices and to get our prices low we need to keep our costs low. When people come together to give their time we can really achieve that....

The idea behind the 'bringbackthebutterflies' campaign is to encourage resident groups to create wildlife-friendly butterfly conservation gardens in their area. Interested groups should hold a meeting to decide if they are going to take part in the project. Campaign organiser Jim Leigh can visit the gardens site to offer advice...

The Metropolitan Police has set up a new website to allow road users to report dangerous driving. DCI Nick Chalmers, who runs the site, said, "This scheme allows any member of the community to report their concerns about road conditions, road user behaviour or criminality to the police, and each report is dealt with on its own...

Results for Holborn & St. Pancras 2010  Natalie Louise Bennett  Green 1,480  Robert Carlyle  British National Party    779  John Chapman  Independent    96  Frank Dobson  Labour 25,198  George Lee  Conservative 11,13...

LCC has launched a major theft campaign to coincide with the seasonal increase in stolen bikes and help tackle the year-on-year rises in the problem. The police, the mayor, Transport for London, local councils, websites, bike shops, and cyclists themselves are all being engaged in efforts to reduce the problem. LCC's eight-poi...