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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 PoliticsSkyfall
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Local Politicsphotodump: Election count 2022
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Local PoliticsOne more sleep
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BarnetThose contract pledges
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Local PoliticsHe’s behind you
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THE signs were there when Adrian Cohen was missing from the queue of councillors waiting to sign in for duty on the Saturday after the council election results. Then Labour sent out a thank you leaflet to voters in Hampstead Town – where he had been a surprise winner on May 5 – without [READ ON]
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NEW mayor Nash Ali slightly had the wind taken out of his parachute last night when he announced he planned to be the first in office to do a charity skydive this [READ ON] -
BEFORE we start with the class of 2022 – here is the election count photodump, because some people said they didn’t see one of them in all those pages we did in the [READ ON]
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ONE night to go ELECTION EVE SO here we go, election eve. Tomorrow, some people’s lives are going to change in a big, big way. Whether that’s the people of Camden [READ ON] -
LABOUR are now odds on favourites with the bookmakers to take control of Barnet Council this week – and the excitement is getting the better of one or two of the [READ ON] -
THE Tories are looking to gain seats in Primrose Hill now the ward has been split from Camden Town. The sitting Labour councillors chose to stand in the Camden Town and so PH [READ ON] -
Two days to go STILL HERE OOF, no updates here since April 11 but at least the CNJ turned up to the hustings. Perhaps the quality of these elections could be summed up at the [READ ON] -
24 days to go NOT QUITE DAILY OK, so not so election daily, but that’s because it’s all got a little pacier with this election campaign and, folks, we’ve [READ ON]
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33 days to go FIRST IN THE Lib Dems had a manifesto launch over the weekend which I’d tell you all about if the first I’d heard of it wasn’t past pub time [READ ON] -
37 days to go INDEPENDENT PHIL ANYBODY who wants to stand in the council elections is running out of time to get themselves on the ballot paper. Nominations close on Tuesday [READ ON]
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35 days to go IN OR OUT ISLINGTON’S Labour Party has now released its council election manifesto too. It’s ‘Fairer, safer, greener’, as you asked. The [READ ON] -
36 days to go NO MORE FRESH PRINCE IT’S a busy life for Ali Hassan-Ali who last week was angrily busting out of the Tory party, for whom he was meant to be standing as [READ ON] -
37 days to go HI BARNET AT the 2018 council elections there was talk of all sorts of possibilities for Labour with some party members even claiming they could take down the [READ ON] -
38 days to go ‘GET TO SOUTH HAMPSTEAD’ LABOUR Party campaign organisers are happy with the way things are going. It must feel like a home fixture when you already [READ ON]
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40 days to go WHERE YOU BEEN? YOU’VE had to go three days without an update – I deny I had a jar of ale to mark the CNJ‘s 40th birthday this week – but [READ ON]
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44 days to go MAN DOWN A QUICK one this evening as we try to establish what on earth is going on in West Hampstead for the Conservatives. What we do know is that their [READ ON] -
45 days to go FASTER, STRONGER, CLEANER, SAFER HERE goes with another week of nightly updates and things are getting serious now as Camden Labour have delivered their [READ ON] -
48 days to go TALL STORY MY response to the idea that Oliver Cooper would be able to force another council meeting before the elections was: Labour are not going to do [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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