Matt Pearce

Mar 21, 2024 | islingtonnow.co.uk | Matt Pearce

Jeremy Corbyn is feeling “indelicate”. He and his constituency team have just had a late lunch at Blue Owl café in Finsbury Park, but his aide Alex was fasting, so she just sat and watched him eat. Corbyn is tickled by the idea of his meal tempting her. “She didn’t seem to mind,” he grins. Perhaps Corbyn is over bad manners. The Islington North MP, who this summer reaches 41 years representing his constituency, has been known for going against the grain throughout his veteran parliamentary career.

Mar 14, 2024 | islingtonnow.co.uk | Matt Pearce

Joel Williams nearly called it off. It was a rainy November morning, back in 2021, and he stood on Whittington Park football pitch in Upper Holloway, ready to deliver a training session to two players who had signed up to a new women’s football programme. He gets a call. Has training been cancelled? “No, still on,” Joel chuckles, reliving the fledgling days of his role as Camden and Islington United (CANDI) women’s first team coach.

Mar 14, 2024 | islingtonnow.co.uk | Matt Pearce

Joel Williams nearly called it off. It was a rainy November morning, back in 2021, and he stood on Whittington Park football pitch in Upper Holloway, ready to deliver a training session to two players who had signed up to a new women’s football programme. He gets a call. Has training been cancelled? “I’m like: ‘No, still on,’” Joel chuckles, reliving the fledgling days of his role as Camden and Islington United (CANDI) women’s first team coach.

Mar 13, 2024 | islingtonnow.co.uk | Matt Pearce

Bunhill residents are fighting to save the Finsbury Leisure Centre football pitches, which are due to be razed to make way for 200 private and social homes. City of London Football Club, a local youth team, who train on the pitches four hours a week, have teamed up with EC1 Voices – a group made up of residents of Paton Street, Mitchell Street and Dance Square – to campaign against the council development.

Oct 19, 2023 | islingtonnow.co.uk | Matt Pearce

Pentonville prison is “shockingly horrible” and “not fit for purpose”, according to a recently released ex-inmate. Daniel Brown, 30, told Islington Now of “extreme overcrowding”, drugs and violence inside Pentonville. Brown was released from Pentonville in July 2022 after three separate stints totalling two and a half years.