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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 PoliticsLabour’s Andrew Dismore to stand down at London Assembly elections
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Local PoliticsJenny Rowlands appointed as Camden Council’s new chief executive
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Local PoliticsYou do the honours
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Local PoliticsThe interviewing panel
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Local PoliticsShare the mayor?
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CONSERVATIVE MP Kemi Badenoch has enraged Tulipistas everywhere by claiming the Hampstead and Kilburn MP delayed the birth of her son simply to ‘make a point’ to her constituents on Brexit. Tulip Siddiq, now due to have a Caesarian later this week, had been in the headlines this week by [READ ON]
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ANDREW Dismore, Labour’s London Assembly member for Camden and Barnet, has announced he will not seek another term at the 2020 City Hall elections. The former MP, [READ ON] -
JENNY Rowlands has won the race to become the new chief executive of Camden Council. She will replace the retiring Mike Cooke. A press release will no doubt be issued soon [READ ON]
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THE honours system is a funny one: in our North London enclave, people often raise eyebrows about how the gongs are dished out and why, until somebody they like gets an award [READ ON] -
ONE of the big decisions for Camden Council early in the New Year will be to appoint a new chief executive. Mike Cooke’s six-month notice period has zipped away quickly [READ ON] -
ALSO in Westminster, a bit of history to note as the Conservative city council has announced it will elect a Labour mayor for the first time in 50 years in 2019. Ruth Bush [READ ON] -
CHRISTMAS is here and apparently some of you are missing some council blogging. Well, we’ve all got a bit of downtime over the festive season, so here come some new [READ ON] -
LIBERAL Democrat councillor Flick Rea got the festive knitwear out last night to continue the Camden planning committee’s tradition of having the chair wear a Christmas [READ ON]
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The gusto with which some members fought 'The Battle Of The All-Member Meetings' should make opponents fear how strong Labour could be if it gets its thousands of card-carriers on the same page [READ ON] -
LABOUR Party members in Holborn and St Pancras have been warned to avoid disappointment by turning up early to tonight’s meeting at St Pancras Church where reforms to [READ ON] -
ONCE again police have been trying to get tough with the drug dealers in Camden Town, a market which gets worse and better in waves but is stubbornly entrenched. Arrests are [READ ON] -
TEN days ago, the council chamber was on tenterhooks listening to Gio Spinella’s will-he won’t he speech. The vast majority of contributions are delivered to [READ ON] -
A COLLECTION of local Liberal Democrats are getting used to standing outside the ‘Town Hall’ for an hour before council meetings start with EU flags and placards. [READ ON] -
IT might have been the only time Labour, Lib Dem and Green councillors have not wanted the mayor to cut off an overrunning Tory speaker. There was Gio Spinella, the [READ ON] -
A DAY after Camden’s Labour group resolved (not quite unanimously) to support a Liberal Democrat motion calling for a people’s vote second referendum – [READ ON] -
CAMDEN’S Labour group are lining up to vote in favour of a Liberal Democrat motion calling for a People’s Vote, it has emerged this evening, with support for [READ ON] -
ANDREW Dismore may have been nakedly point-scoring in the London Assembly chamber on Thursday but as he read Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey’s crude words [READ ON] -
RETIRING chief executive Mike Cooke had reason to blush at the last full’s council meeting when every councillor took to their feet applauding his service at the Town [READ ON]
Camden Council elections 2018
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