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Jonathan SimpsonIs Camden in pole position to be named London Borough of Culture?
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Abdul QuadirWhat happens in Part II, stays in Part II
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Local PoliticsA little catch-up
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Georgia GouldGeorgia and the Chalcots evacuation: How did she do?
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General Election 2017Elected? How North London spread out across the ballot paper II
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THIS one has been on the cards for a couple of months – most people in the Labour Party in Camden knew it was coming – but Sally Gimson has confirmed she will not stand for again in Highgate at the next year’s Town Hall elections. Her decision comes just over a year since she ran for the overall leadership of the council as the councillor who challenged Sarah Hayward for the top job. Cllr Gimson (pictured above with fellow Highgate councillor Oliver Lewis) didn’t win, [READ ON]
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I CAME back from a summer holiday in a nice little corner of Europe this week to find that I need not have flown anywhere at all: sun-kissed Camden provides the perfect idyll. So it appears at least from Camden Council’s poetical new video supporting its attempts to be named ‘London Borough of Culture’ in a contest set up by the London Mayor Sadiq Khan and City Hall. And doesn’t the borough scrub up well under a warm movie filter, all rich and Instagrammy? Our canal is [READ ON]
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LONG time, no post. The news schedule in the CNJ office over the last few weeks may tell you why… it’s meant to be the slow, summer season. Anyway, time for a little catch-up… MP-AGAIN Zac Goldsmith may have been a touch hopeful when he wrote to Labour’s Tulip Siddiq asking for her help in securing the chairmanship of parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee earlier this summer. “I write to ask for your support,” he said in an emailed [READ ON] -
SO after all that, how did she do? Everybody seems to have an opinion on how Georgia Gould, just a month into being leader of Camden Council, has handled what is the biggest test I can remember anybody in her new position facing in recent years. Her supporters joke that they feel even more reassured they have a safe pair of hands in place by the identity of some of the instant critics of the Chalcots evacuation; tweets and columns from a HHH rugby sticks trinity of Hodges, Hartley-Brewer and, [READ ON] -
AFTER the last general election we took a look at how those who had gone further afield in search of a parliamentary seat had fared at the ballot box. It’s worth doing again for this election, as over the years it has become pretty standard business for councillors and activists to gravitate towards parliament. The House of Commons is stuffed with people who passed through Camden on their way to Westminster. So while we know what happened in Hampstead and Kilburn and Holborn and St [READ ON] -
NO prizes for guessing which party emerged as the victors when Camden School for Girls in Camden Town staged a mock general election on polling day last week. The result suggests reducing the voting age to 16 here would simply lead to Labour piling on more votes in the real thing, as students from council leader Georgia Gould’s old school gave her party a landslide win in the assembly hall. Intriguingly enough, ten students at the famous school, whose alumni also includes Emma Thompson, [READ ON] -
IT may not have all turned out exactly as the Conservatives in Hampstead wanted but one of the stories of general election of 2017 is surely the tag-team bromance which developed between Councillor Oliver Cooper and Hamish Hunter. A day hardly went by without these guys, usually in matching blue cagoules, posting selfies of each other getting the vote out: outside train stations, in the park, leaping over walls. Best friends for life, even on Saturday, they were back out together in NW3 to [READ ON]
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YOU can take your pick for tweets, quotes and newspaper headlines which don’t look like they may age so well after Thursday’s general election results in north [READ ON] -
Pic: The Secret Artist @SecretartistNW5 BEFORE we look more at the why, what, where, when about this election, for there probably needs to be a lot of that, I’ve got to [READ ON] -
ELECTION outfit of the day? Tom Copley, the Labour London Assembly member once of this parish, who went out campaigning with Karen Buck in Westminster North earlier in a Cher [READ ON]
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A TORY wraparound ad covering last week’s Ham and High newspaper (and web ads on both the CNJ and Ham and High websites) will not come out of the local Conservative [READ ON] -
GET well soon to Liberal Democrat councillor Flick Rea, who was treated in the Royal Free Hospital yesterday for a broken arm after tripping over in West Hampstead while out [READ ON] -
ONLY a jackal would wager good money on the outcome of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency this week. At times it has felt like a coin toss, so stay in school, kids, [READ ON] -
TWO years ago, when Labour members and the famous Ed Miliband £3-ers were asked why they were voting for Jeremy Corbyn to be the next leader of the party, many said [READ ON] -
Candidates in Hampstead and Kilburn ended the only hustings of their general election campaign with a 90-second pitch at the Granville Community Kitchen… Hugh [READ ON] -
IN the search for clues as to who will win the unpredictable Hampstead and Kilburn seat at next week’s general election, we’ve been grasping at what people who [READ ON] -
HERE’S a corker for leafletwatch as Liberal Democrat candidate Keith Angus tells voters that only he “can beat Jeremy Corbyn” in the Labour stronghold of [READ ON] -
GEORGIA Gould and Keir Starmer led another hearty delegation of Labour activists and councillors from Holborn and St Pancras north to help Tulip Siddiq on Saturday (and not [READ ON]
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‘WE wish to correct the impression made in the New Journal that the reported contract failure was not subject to scrutiny’, earnestly [READ ON]
Famous people reading the Camden New Journal (and the Islington Tribune)
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
As drawn by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo reads the New Journal’s sister newspaper, the Islington Tribune
Tracey Emin rarely seen without a CNJ
Biaaaaanca gets hold of her favourite weekly read
Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, likes the film page.
The Kinks’ legend Ray Davies with his favourite weekly read
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
Writer and journalist Will Hutton makes sure he always gets all the Camden news first
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
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