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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 PoliticsH&K campaigns officer warns: Stop smearing us!
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Local PoliticsResistance in Hampstead and Kilburn over minute’s silence for Tessa Jowell
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Local PoliticsLabour members pass motion condemning Israeli defence forces
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Local PoliticsChampion row: Sorin Floti becomes EU Citizens czar
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Local PoliticsHamish
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THE race-to-the-finish council elections in Highgate have left a mark on a few minds and here comes the hangover. A sparky response to news that Green Party councillor Sian Berry is running to be the co-leader of her party nationally – she is running to succeed Caroline Lucas on a job-share [READ ON]
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I GUESS that escalated quickly. What was reported in the Camden New Journal and on these pages as mumbling and muttering has now become full-scale heckling. This after the [READ ON] -
NOBODY wants to admit defeat but it’s a tough job trying to work out what exactly went on behind closed doors at the recent constituency meeting of Labour members in [READ ON]
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THERE was more than one contentious episode at that recent meeting of Labour constituency members in Hampstead and Kilburn. People in the room also wanted a clear [READ ON] -
THE bonhomie of the mayor-making ceremony – champers with raspberry in the flutes, a chicken and apricot tagine, and lemon merinques, since you ask – is beginning [READ ON] -
DURING the election campaign I was contacted by some of the Conservatives’ opponents and asked why I was not writing more on Hamish Hunter’s removal from the [READ ON] -
** SUPER NICHE POST ALERT ** ON a council where Labour hold a record number of seats, you may forgive the Conservatives for feeling sensitive about what seats they will have [READ ON] -
THE Conservatives can be a funny breed: a bubbling civil war which stretches back beyond the last few days and then it comes to their AGM this evening and they sort of shake [READ ON]
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ALTHOUGH there was no leadership challenge or even a face-off for cabinet positions, Camden’s Labour group are nevertheless picking over the results of AGM votes for [READ ON] -
EVERYBODY wants to pay tribute to Tessa Jowell, who passed away last night, and it’s a testament to her nature and character that by everybody we don’t just mean [READ ON]
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THE ‘more of the same’ manifesto which Labour came up with ahead of the local elections looks set to be delivered by a more of the same cabinet, with none of the [READ ON] -
AS we probably already knew, you don’t get rid of Flick Rea so easily. The nuke-proof Liberal Democrat councillor clung on when all around her lost their seats in 2014 [READ ON] -
A SUNNY bank holiday was the perfect way to recharge the batteries – I sat on the beach wondering what would’ve happened in Belsize if Jonny Bucknell had not been [READ ON]
Famous faces reading the Camden New Journal (and the Islington Tribune)
In Bruges actor Brendan Gleeson is engrossed
Sir David Attenborough. No caption needed.
Goldie wants news on Fabric first… and he knows where to turn
Ed Balls heads straight to the unrivalled election coverage in the CNJ
Don’t disturb Dame Judi Dench when she’s reading the CNJ
Paula Radcliffe ecstatic with getting her hands on a copy of the CNJ
Helena Bonham Carter loves the Trib
Tom Watson and Steve Coogan can’t put the CNJ down for a moment
X-Factor host Dermot O’Leary gets a dose of exclusives
Actor Michael Sheen takes time out from impersonating Tony Blair and Kenneth Williams to catch up with his favourite local newspaper
Jacob Rees-Mogg never misses an issue of the CNJ
Michelle Collins: happy
As drawn by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo reads the New Journal’s sister newspaper, the Islington Tribune
Tracey Emin rarely seen without a CNJ
The Kinks’ legend Ray Davies with his favourite weekly read
Brian Blessed loves the New Journal’s Review section
Biaaaaanca gets hold of her favourite weekly read
Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, likes the film page.
Woody Allen hanging out in Kentish Town, hoping he’s got to the dispenser before the last New Journal goes.
Let’s get literary: SIr Michael Holroyd and Margaret Drabble with their favourite local read
Felix Buxton, from Basement Jaxx, is never without his weekly CNJ
Jazzie B is down with the Islington Tribune
Michael Foot reads the ‘Save The Journal’ editions as the New Journal came to life from industrial action in the 1980s
Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi follows the latest planning news in the Trib
Labour leader Ed Miliband reads every single word
Lord Of The Rings actor Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis with his precious
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes can’t resist a peek.
The barman, Merlin, from First Dates. With his favourite read.
David Miliband follows all the local politics in his preferred weekly read.
Jim Broadbent caught reading his favourite local paper
Seb Coe catching up on the sports + politics news
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson never misses an edition
Downton Abbey star Jim Carter is up to speed
Su Pollard: Excited.
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