Remember this? Well here he is clutching a letter from Barnet Homes which assures him they won't be seeking to evict. Which is either nice... or soft-headed authority rolling over in the face of sentimental social media bullying. Let's go with "nice".

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He's 83, he's lived in the property for the last 74 years, except for the years he spent fighting in the Second World War, but now - following the death of his sister, with whom he shared the property - he's facing eviction from the Cricklewood home to make room for a family, with "more need" for the three bedrooms. It's a logical request, but it seems like an unusual request, where some compassion might be applicable. Edward Meakins is reported as saying he fears he'll die if he's forced to give up his home and garden. It's a sad story. Coverage here and here (plus photos). (Inevitable) Facebook petition here.

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Damn... high house prices might be enough to keep the non-Boden set out of Muswell Hill, but what can you do about extra-terrestrials? Apparently fed up with visiting the snaggle-toothed, tailgating inbred of the country, people-of-other-planets are pointing their UFOs at a more chi-chi environment. So often, in fact, that - according to this - the people of Muswell Hill have informally renamed the nabe.

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Apparently, Sienna Miller thinks it's time for an expensive spruce-up.

Miss Miller has even recruited the services of her former stepmother, interior design to the rich and famous, Kelly Hoppen.

Wonder if Law went for the beer can bong and PS3 look in her absence?

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Haart's London Property Index is showing a 22% rise since January, the average price of a London property rocketing from £152,207 to £194, 052. Hotspots? Blackheath Village, Southgate and Willesden Green. More here.

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The Primelocation blog wonders why Jade Jagger's £1.5m Queens Park flat still - after a year - hasn't shifted. Could it be the strippers' pole (see where I place that apostrophe... the Rat and Mouse provides itself on an extravagant imagination) in the bathroom? Those things are expensive to install, you know? Particulars, here.

Celebrities who don't sell [April 16, 2009]

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How will the reserved British public take to Silkstream, Colindale's apartment development aimed at sociable first-time buyers? The flats are reasonably priced... £175,000 for a one-bedroom start home (plus a deferred equity/interest-free loan scheme to get residents in quicker), but it's the development's layout that's most interesting... an outdoor gym, and amenity areas on every floor, including table football, a sewing room, ironing areas (below), message areas with chalkboards aimed at getting the community to, well, commune. We like it. But will it feel a bit too college campus for homebuyers?

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Fresh from a price reduction, this skinny Elgin Avenue glass house replaces a former wine vault, and it's just 3m wide at the front. It was designed by Nicholas Boyarsky and Nicola Murphy and was the subject of a Building Design feature in 2007. Guide price, £1.15m. Particulars here.

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It's hard to imagine the neighbourhood with the market, but - according to this - that's how it might be if the current Government and Central Rating Office policy to remove concessionary rates for small businesses continues. Some traders have seen rates increase by 100%. Don't expect small, independent shops to survive. Sign the petition. And according to this, there'll be a demonstration on Saturday.

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Where? Never heard of it.

Well you'd better get used to it, because...

A new weekend market which is planned to open on the junction will be called Maida Hill Market, and a new community magazine is to be launched, entitled Maida Hill Life.

And, according to a local:

"The Harrow Road post office is officially called the Maida Hill post office, and on the front of buses, it says they are going to Maida Hill."

But you can't just decide you're going to call a place something, and then stick it on buses. Can you? Apparently the area has been called Maida Hill before, back in the early 19th Century, when the British and French were fighting. It was named after a skirmish.

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