The Year In Twitpics
…another year of sending pictures to Twitter. SNOW at the start of the year, and a fox – a fox in the snow! – in Bounds Green. Less pretty scenes in Crouch [READ ON]
December 2013
Aaaaall the people: Mayor in a Santa suit, singing Parklife
IT’S been a busy old run in to Christmas for Camden Mayor Jonathan Simpson. Behind the scenes, he has been helping to put the Amy Winehouse Foundation, the charity he [READ ON]
FOI: ‘The new government has brought unprecedented cuts’… how Birmingham Council pitched bid to be on BBC’s The Choir
THE Choir: Sing While You’re Working is the feelgood thing on BBC2 where good salt Gareth Malone inspires the everyman to be the best they can be, and all that, by [READ ON]
Xmas quiz answers: Guess the headlines
HERE we go. Q1. Camden Council reveal drastic new measures. ANSWER: BIRMINGHAM Q2. Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy make a special appeal in the pages of the New Journal. [READ ON]
Xmas quiz: Guess the 2013 headlines
GUESS THE NEW JOURNAL HEADLINES CHRISTMAS QUIZ: Don’t phone in, it’s just for fun and all that. Three points for bang on, one for near enough. No cheating by [READ ON]
Monday file 16/12/13: Nando’s to look into Tulip points scam accusations
Posting here on Sunday Monday nights, bits and pieces, tweets and links that didn’t make a full post during the week. * AFTER Labour parliamentary candidate Tulip [READ ON]
Tulip’s peri-peri rage: parliamentary candidate says she was wrongly accused of loyalty points scam
FURIOUS Tulip Siddiq, the Labour parliamentary candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn, tweets that she was wrongly accused of a scam this afternoon, while trying to order some [READ ON]
Whatever next: Now HS2 planners say they need to take N-Dubz cafe…
THEY are talking about putting a plaque on the La Giaconda dining rooms in Tin Pan Alley, behind Centre Point. Although more of a place for fancy risotto than ham and chips [READ ON]
Defending Eros
ARSENAL were not the only team on the wrong end of a 6-3 trouncing this week: spare a thought too for the Wimbledon Saints, who went down by the same scoreline at the hands [READ ON]
FOI: ‘It’s a boy’ card was not lost in the post after all
SOME greasy/respectful [toggle to your taste] local authorities sent happy wishes to the Royal Family over the summer, using official notepaper and all that to mark the [READ ON]
Richard Osley 