Scoopland
HATS off to the National Union of Journalists this evening! Good work for reviving the Regional Press Awards today, picking up where the Press Gazette left off. It [READ ON]
June 2010
Sketch: It’s just like watching Brazil
Sketch: Camden, Full Council 28/6/10 SO, we could have spent the evening watching Brazil: the World Cup maestros who make everything England toil over look so easy. [READ ON]
Cllr Gio?
FROGNAL and Fitzjohns. Safe Conservative seat? If that follows, step forward Councillor Giovanni Spinella. He was beaten in Fortune Green by the Lib Dems in May but it would [READ ON]
Hold the front page
FOLLOWING on from Pickles and Keith Moffitt’s question for tonight’s meeting at the Town Hall on the content of council newspapers, there are strong suggestions [READ ON]
Daily rate: £1,300 a day
THERE’S an interesting tug-of-war going on between a member of the public identified only as Mirrorball and Newham Council’s Freedom of Information team about how [READ ON]
Pickles, Pravdas and propaganda protests
ERIC Pickles found some common ground with The Newspaper Society with this fighting talk yesterday: “Councils should spend less time and money on weekly town hall [READ ON]
www.gildingthelily.camden.gov.uk
CABINET office minister Francis Maude says today 75 percent of government websites face the axe. He reckons they are more costly than they are worth. But should the idea of [READ ON]
What you doing Sunday afternoon?
ADVERTISING the weekend’s entertainment, the legendary Quinn’s pub in Camden Town saves on some felt [READ ON]
One council I know
LIB Dem councillor Chris Naylor shames but does not name a local authority with a fatty back office in a deliciously spiky letter published in yesterday’s Independent: [READ ON]
Punchy planners
PLANNING officers were having a tough time tonight when I popped in for an hour to eyeball the post-election committee for the first time. Their recommendations were being [READ ON]
Richard Osley 