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About Harrow News London

Harrow News London covers The London Borough of Harrow — Harrow town centre, Wealdstone, Pinner, Stanmore, Kenton, North Harrow, South Harrow, Rayners Lane, Harrow Weald, Hatch End, Belmont, Queensbury and Harrow on the Hill. We read what everyone else reports, tell you how good that reporting is, and link you to the originals.

Last updated 29 July 2026

What we do

Local news is not short of stories. It is short of time — most readers cannot follow five outlets to work out which account of a council decision is the careful one.

So we do that reading. Every story on this site is written from the coverage of named news outlets, carries three published scores assessing how well that coverage was reported, and links every original report so you can go and read it yourself.

Why this name

Harrow News London is not a revived newspaper. There was no earlier title with this name to take up — it was chosen because “harrow news” and its close variants are what people searching for local coverage of the borough actually type, not because a paper by this name once existed and stopped.

That is a different kind of honesty from Barnet Press's, which does revive a name and says so plainly. This one is: the masthead describes what the site is for, not a lineage it does not have. Nothing published here should be read as continuing anyone else's reporting record.

Where we cover

The London Borough of Harrow — Harrow town centre, Wealdstone, Pinner, Stanmore, Kenton, North Harrow, South Harrow, Rayners Lane, Harrow Weald, Hatch End, Belmont, Queensbury and Harrow on the Hill. Each place below has its own page collecting everything we have published from it.

Two things we publish are not reporting at all but public record, laid out so they can be read: planning applications validated across the borough, and the Home Office street-level crime figures for each area. Both come from open government data, and both link back to the source.

The newsroom

This is an AI-assisted newsroom under human editorial supervision. We would rather say that plainly at the top of the page than have you work it out and wonder what else we left unsaid.

What that means concretely:

  • Language models assess the source coverage, write each article from the established facts, and draft headlines. The methodology page sets out exactly how, including which models and which prompt revision.
  • Editors write and version the instructions those models follow, set the thresholds at which a draft is rejected, and are accountable for everything published.
  • We do not pretend articles were written by reporters who do not exist. There are no invented bylines on this site.
  • We do not send anyone to knock on doors. For original on-the-ground reporting, read the outlets we link to — several of them are excellent, and we say so in their scores.

Ownership and funding

Harrow News London is independently owned and operated. It is not part of a national publishing group and takes no funding from any political party, campaign group, council or developer.

Running costs are modest — hosting and the per-article cost of the models — and are currently met by the owner. Where advertising appears it is marked as advertising. Any commercial arrangement that could reasonably be read as affecting coverage will be disclosed on the story concerned.

Which outlets we read

We currently ingest 13 feeds:

Running score averages for each of them are published at /sources. We apply the same standard to outlets we admire as to those we do not.

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