Queen's Park and Kensal Rise on the up - The TIMES

Nice article about the two areas, which is perhaps a bit late to talk about Queen's Park becoming trendier but makes some good points about Kensal Rise. Chamberlayne Road has improved in just the eight months I've lived here. They could also have pointed out the changes to College Road, where the Island bar, Gracelands cafe and its next-door-collection of boutiques, have now been joined by another new boutique opposite.

Hurrah! The Kensal Rise library is saved.

Says this article. I wonder if they'll ever get around to renaming them so they sound a bit more like the area everyone else now calls it?

Having said that the libraries are a great resource - we use them almost weekly.

Tornado 'uplift it needed' for Kensal Rise

So says a pretty ridiculous Observer article, which quotes a couple with three children who moved from Notting Hill to Kensal Rise to be near the William IV pub.  Who'd have thought?