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SALLY Rose White is the ghost of Christmas past. She haunts me, and others should feel the same; more so. Fifteen years ago, at Christmas time, the killer who ended her [READ ON]
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Local PoliticsAlways at work Green Party leader calls for better work-life balance
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Local PoliticsSamata Khatoon and Lorna Russell up for gongs at councillor awards
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Local PoliticsShould Camden’s councillors debate Brexit?
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Local Politics‘I nearly had a little exotic spresm’
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Local PoliticsCamden Council chief executive Mike Cooke to retire
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IN the new council chamber at the Crowndale Centre, countdown screens have been erected in a bid to stop councillors waffling on. The seconds tick down until the display turns red and then it’s supposed to be time to sit down. On debut on Monday evening, there was little indication that [READ ON]
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SIAN Berry enjoyed her first party conference season as co-leader of the Green Party, pushing the ambition of a four-day week and a better work life balance. On the stage in [READ ON] -
TWO Labour politicians are in the running to be the first from Camden to win ‘councillor of the year’ awards in the local government world’s annual [READ ON]
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IT’S the first full council meeting in the temporary Town Hall at the Crowndale Centre this evening and councillors will – if the meeting is managed for time [READ ON] -
AFTER a couple of false starts, the recently-departed Camden councillor Siobhan Baillie is now being pushed onto the main stage of the Conservative conference as a [READ ON] -
CAMDEN Council’s most senior officer, the chief executive Mike Cooke, has emailed councillors today to inform them of his plans to retire. He tells them: Dear Members, [READ ON] -
HOLBORN and St Pancras Sir Keir Starmer got a standing ovation in Liverpool after telling the conference hall that ‘nobody is ruling out remain’ as a possible [READ ON] -
AFTER the Palestinian flag-waving at last week’s Labour conference, Oliver Cooper, the leader of the Conservatives in Camden, heads to Birmingham for the Tory [READ ON]
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TIME to head to the Conservatives in Birmingham but an ICYMI from last week in Liverpool: Here was the BBC touring the Labour conference centre with cupcakes bearing the [READ ON] -
AFTER Oona King, David Miliband and Ed Miliband, Labour’s annual conference has got used to contributions from former Haverstock School pupils over the years. Step [READ ON] -
JUST before Labour members from Hampstead and Kilburn headed up here to Liverpool for their conference, they met to discuss how delegates might vote on certain issues. The [READ ON] -
JUST for one brief second – just one second – I thought I had the scoop of scoops from Lib Dem conference when I was walking along the seafront in Brigthon on [READ ON] -
AN unofficial code of the Liberal Democrat conference is that recently-elected new councillors should continue their initiation by singing at an annual karaoke. Sadly, no [READ ON] -
LABOUR’S chief whip Lazzaro Pietragnoli responds to the New Journal’s story about ‘stage-managed’ (a term coined by his colleagues, not me) council [READ ON] -
THERE may be one or two Labour figures who’d like to give the party’s conference in Liverpool a miss. Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq has a good excuse to [READ ON] -
THE election of the full JC9 slate to Labour’s National Executive Committee, and particularly that of Pete Willsman, last week led all the chat/anger/analysis about [READ ON] -
THE final draft of the Boundary Commission recommendations for a new parliamentary map of the UK has been released today, and the headline everyone will jump on is the [READ ON] -
FORMER Labour councillor Phil Rosenberg’s collision course with Camden Momentum continues. He has already puzzled aloud over which side some members of the left-wing [READ ON]
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