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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 PoliticsThe Town Hall after the pandemic
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Local PoliticsCannot discuss…
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Local PoliticsLib Dems suspend Luisa Porritt’s only opponent in mayoral selection race
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Georgia GouldGeorgia Gould becomes chair of London Councils
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Local PoliticsThe King of the Mountains
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Tributes have flooded in for Leila Roy after the sudden death of the former councillor on Friday evening – raise a glass to her if you don't want everybody in the Town Hall chamber to look and sound the same [READ ON]
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THE work to revamp the Town Hall building continues with the virus pandemic not standing in the way of a plan to get councillors back in Judd Street by 2022. They had just [READ ON] -
SCRUTINY committee chairman Awale Olad likes to throw in a few ‘jokes’ every now again. He recently stopped a meeting to start a discussion over why Labour [READ ON]
Nominated for ‘Blog of the Year’ at the UK’s Regional Press Awards
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IF you are a Liberal Democrat and want Luisa Porritt, the Belsize councillor, to be the party’s mayoral candidate in London, then I suppose it’s good news: her [READ ON] -
CAMDEN leader Georgia Gould’s workload just got bigger after she won the vote to be the new chair of London Councils. The first cheeky DM I got back from one of her [READ ON] -
'Pensionable' councillor beats the steep gradients of Swains Lane once a week [READ ON] -
IT’S a shame that tonight’s full council meeting is not back in the chamber because we would probably have witnessed quite a speech from Flick Rea. She will pass [READ ON] -
CAMDEN’S Labour AGM tonight lacks a dramatic internal vote for cabinet positions this year. Instead, Georgia Gould, the leader, has been given the power [READ ON]
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MARCH 10, the last day this website had something new. It seems a long time ago. To think, on that date, I could write a piece about the Labour Party’s new AGM rules [READ ON] -
A blogpost! Still here, folks.... and, yes, so are the Labour councillors on edge about how their AGM works. Last night, a new row opened up as the ruling group voted to move to a 'leader selects' model of deciding who sits on the cabinet. All the power goes to Georgia Gould - but how will she use it? [READ ON] -
IT’S a limited print run, but it’s out there in the boxes: the CNJ special. It’s old-fashioned, not webby, won’t get me a job at Buzzfeed, but [READ ON] -
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* Matt Hancock visits cash-strapped hospital * Lib Dems get raunchy * Tulip Siddiq told she must answer Ch4 questions * Thanks for reading [READ ON] -
* New polls suggest Tulip Siddiq has no need to sweat * Channel 4 News try to make Tulip Siddiq sweat [READ ON] -
* Alexis Rowell goes red * Bill Oddie vs the 'windbag' * Tories late with the mail [READ ON] -
* Camden MP wants to be a politician * Return of the remainer megaphone * Another newspaper guide on how to vote * [READ ON] -
6 days to go THE FRONT PAGE IF local newspapers were swimming in money, would they be allowing their editions to be wrapped in garish political advertising? Who knows but as [READ ON] -
* Johnny Luk 'craps' on Tulip Siddiq * The Lib Dem who showed the party can poll a five-figure total * Chuka writes * Dua Lipa makes her choice [READ ON]
Camden Council elections 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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