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The Harrow News London desk

A fast, evidence-led local news wire for Harrow, built to show its working.

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 Harrow News London

The name is deliberately direct: this is reporting about Harrow, written for people who live and work in the borough, with the wider London context kept close at hand.

It is a new digital publication, not a revival or continuation of an earlier newspaper. Its authority has to come from transparent sourcing and useful reporting, not borrowed history.

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.

We also publish public records in a form residents can use: planning applications and street-level crime figures. These come from open government data and 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.

Valentin-Adrian Neagu

Valentin-Adrian Neagu

Owner and publisher, Harrow News London

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Which outlets we read

We currently ingest 11 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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