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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 PoliticsMaybe we’ll talk about insourcing another day
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Siobhan BaillieFormer Tory councillor Siobhan Baillie selected to stand for Parliament in Stroud
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Heather JohnsonSorry, Heather, we’re not quorate…
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Rishi MadlaniA shadowy council meeting
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Georgia GouldLabour’s policy forum elections: Georgia Gould, Sucharita Sethi bid for places
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HOLBORN and St Pancras MP Keir Starmer plays a pretty straight bat on social media, keeping the hashtags to a minimum. Like his predecessor he does not seem to feel the need to tweet every local achievement immediately after achieving it; a talk to some schoolkids, a visit to a care home still [READ ON]
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CAMDEN’s housing chief Meric Apak is continuing to argue the case for insourcing to get proper consideration as an option for council works contracts. The tangled web [READ ON] -
FORMER Camden councillor Siobhan Baillie is to have another bite at winning a seat in the House of Commons, and this time she is set up for a much more appetising challenge. [READ ON]
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HOW will Camden’s scrutiny committees function now the council is more lop-sided in favour of Labour councillors than ever before? If the recent round of meetings are a [READ ON] -
LIKE a late evening mixed doubles match at Wimbledon trying to finish a final set, Camden’s Pension Commitee soldiered on against bad light this evening. The lights in [READ ON] -
HAVE we worked out council leader Georgia Gould’s politics yet? She is still accused of being an heir to Blair in some quarters (more often by people from outside of [READ ON] -
WORK is continuing apace at the Crowndale Centre where a new Town Hall chamber, mayor’s parlour and committee rooms are being constructed. As explained previously, [READ ON] -
WHAT have you been doing in the heatwave/summer? I swerved the park and beer garden last week to spend a cooling afternoon in the election expenses at the Town Hall. The [READ ON]
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THE Liberal Democrats were teased during the local elections that they would not be able to stop Brexit from the Town Hall, and that as they went door-to-door they should [READ ON] -
THE thinning down of the Conservative group in Camden at May’s council elections was illustrated in physical terms at Monday’s all member meeting. The loss of [READ ON] -
THERE used to be the old story which pupils passed down through the generations that if the temperature in a classroom peaked at a certain level, then legally the school day [READ ON] -
WHILE teaming up with Labour’s Tom Copley last week for a City Hall motion aimed at convincing Sadiq Khan to campaign against sudden ‘no fault’ evictions on [READ ON] -
THE guy who brought the jumbo TV to Russell Square and saw part of it broken by a tossed bottle may not agree, but council leader Georgia Gould’s park screenings of the [READ ON] -
IT’S a bit of a World Cup gamble for council leader Georgia Gould tomorrow night. She has personally played a big role in ordering two giant screens to show [READ ON] -
WORLD Cup fever struck the Jester Festival in West Hampstead yesterday with punters queuing up to take part in a keepy-uppy contest. It meant Fortune Green councillor Lorna [READ ON] -
TOP Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman has won a string of prizes for her agenda-setting work uncovering the Windrush scandal, but she had to make do with a second-place [READ ON] -
PAUL Foot, the Daily Mirror and Private Eye writer, who sadly passed away in 2004, is known as one of the industry’s investigators, walking his own way to help innocent men [READ ON] -
IT’S coming home, folks, it’s coming home. England WILL win the World Cup. And as such even people who don’t like football are rushing to a TV screen to see [READ ON]
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