Battle for The Bear
HERE is a scrap you wonder why Islington Council has got itself into. Arsenal fans are beating a path to its environment department over the council’s insistence [READ ON]
October 2009
Derren Brown and the public interest test
UNSURPRISINGLY, Derren Brown, the fantastically slick showman who makes good TV programmes, is too smart for me. Well, the Freedom of Information team at the Science Museum [READ ON]
Easyjet: ‘We’re not sponsoring new Spurs stadium’
ANOTHER post about something that happened on Twitter – but a funny one. There was me bantering on about whether Tottenham Hotspur’s new ground might be sponsored by [READ ON]
How much?
GILES Coren was so chuffed with the amount of money Camden Council paid him to launch the Love Camden brochure – a sort of council guide to local [READ ON]
Spotted: Frazz
HEY, who’s that in the Islington Gazette’s ‘People’s Panel’ column? It looks like Frazz.. you know from the Junior Gazette. The one in Press [READ ON]
Ticklist: 1. Create Youth Council
PUT the teenagers in committee room three, give them some pop. Maybe some crisps. Let them chat a bit about grown up things and – wahey – we can tick the box to say [READ ON]
Arthur: The hardest working man in Camden. And Islington.
INTERESTING chat with Lib Dem councillor Arthur Graves today about his plans for life after the council elections. The CNJ revealed a few weeks ago about how he will not seek [READ ON]
Exclusive: Meet me outside Bazalgette Tube Station?
SOME folk reckon Archway station should be rebranded simply as ‘Whittington’ after Dick W, London’s fabled first Mayor. After all it was on Highgate Hill, near [READ ON]
Downing Street TV
LOUISE Casey – the feisty government adviser known as the ‘neighbourhood crime czar/csar/tsar’ – was part of the secret government convoy to Camden last week. [READ ON]
A world without Frank’s beard..
FRANK Dobson wrote an interesting review here for this week’s CNJ of Ros Bayley’s work on the history of the Lissenden Gardens estate, which sometimes gets [READ ON]
Richard Osley 