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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 PoliticsFlick takes to the stage at Glee Club
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Local PoliticsFalsehoods, errors and fake news
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Local PoliticsTeam Tulip set for expansion
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Local PoliticsGeorgia Gould elected to Labour’s National Policy Forum
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Local PoliticsCamden’s new parliamentary constituencies?
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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 Sunday evening and came across former Labour councillor Phil Rosenberg. Had he? Given his open disputes with some quarters of [READ ON]
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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]
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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] -
🔥🔥🔥 alert, as Lib Dem councillor Luisa Porritt snipes at the Tory party over whether their suggested use of the Proceeds of Crime Act against dodgy developers in [READ ON]
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AFTER Labour party members privately asked for an end to ‘planted’ questions in council meeting and the to-and-fro came to be a story in the CNJ, Bloomsbury [READ ON] -
SIR Vince Cable took to the stage at the National Liberal Club yesterday to announce that he will step down as the leader of the Liberal Democrats when Brexit is either [READ ON] -
IT’S easy to see why some Labour councillors in Camden see the ‘stage management’ row in this week’s New Journal as a fuss about not much, largely [READ ON] -
SOME of Labour’s branches in Camden have this week been debating motions which they hope can progress to discussion by the full constituency membership and then, if [READ ON] -
IT was a long old edition of the culture and environment scrutiny committee at the Crowndale Centre on Monday evening; standard orders were waived for extra time. [READ ON] -
FORMER Camden councillor Mike Katz has not given up on making it to the Commons, announcing this week that he wants another crack at the see-saw constituency Hendon; lost [READ ON] -
COUNCIL leader Georgia Gould said this afternoon she recognised that protesters who gathered outside Labour HQ as part of their opposition to the adoption of the [READ ON] -
FOLLOWING on quickly from that last post on the art chosen for the walls of the new ‘Town Hall’, it emerges that the new room set aside for Conservative members [READ ON] -
LOCAL authorities got a familiar bop on the head last week when the press reminded them, after a classic old chestnut Freedom of Information Act request, about the artwork [READ ON] -
FORMER West Hampstead councillor Phil Rosenberg may have stepped down from the Town Hall but those who do not share his politics, or perhaps more importantly his view on the [READ ON]
Camden Council elections 2018
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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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