The Christmas hecklers
EVERYBODY had lots of fun the weekend before last when the Christmas lights were turned on in Highgate Village. Well, almost everybody. The ‘grassroots’ campaign [READ ON]
November 2012
Save The Goose graf
GRAFFITI (in the tagging sense) with a message… on the boards covering the demolished Camden Snooker Club in Delancey Street and next to the Crown And Goose pub, which [READ ON]
Kiss chase 1971
I BLAME the Ham & High, but for a moment yesterday afternoon I was staring out of the New Journal‘s window and allowing my mind to wander into a stupid ‘what [READ ON]
It’s not all about Norwich
GRUMBLING grumblers in Islington grumble: you don’t see that Councillor Jessica Asato tweeting about Islington much… The St George’s ward councillor – who [READ ON]
TURN THEM OFF, TURN THEM ON: David Miliband and Jonny Bucknell’s comedy double act in Primrose Hill
ONE time foreign secretary and former Labour Party leadership candidate David Miliband was the choice to turn on the Christmas lights in Primrose Hill this afternoon… [READ ON]
Bleep!
GILES Coren was paid a couple of grand by the Town Hall a few years back to promote Kentish Town in a cheesy photo-shoot with councillors. He may have burned his bridges for [READ ON]
The perfect Christmas gift for 2012? Get bidding
I DON’T think you lot are taking this seriously. There are only nine hours left until the auction closes on an Olympic banner which was draped from a lamppost in Camden [READ ON]
A film for Katie
I KNEW Katie Haines for a short time some years ago when she was a reporter on the Ham & High and we were covering the same jobs. She was engaging and witty, a smart [READ ON]
Five Lily Coles
OF all the stories in the Camden New Journal this week – £5 billion waste deals, rows over international terror suspects – the tale that has been picked up by the [READ ON]
It looks like Auschwitz
HAVE you ever noticed how everything looks a bit like Auschwitz? I hadn’t, not before I worked in local newspapers. Ugly archways, big chimneys, spiky fences – [READ ON]
Richard Osley 