Parish news 1

Youngs' Chinese restaurant - a stalwart of the mid-price range for Islington long before our various and continuing recessions - has had it. For more than thirty years, first in Canonbury Lane, and then in bigger premises on Upper Street, it's been cheerfully piling up the plates on round tables. Now, perhaps no longer leading-edge for a faddy generation, it's to be replaced by a branch of the upstart Le Mercury, started in 1987 by Peter Ilic, with the publicity stunt of customers paying what they thought the food was worth. It's now run by Peter's ex-wife, Grace - prices are cheap but fixed.