So you want to be a (local) political journalist?
FRIENDS and family of former Belsize councillor Sheila Gunn gathered in Gloucestershire today for a memorial service. The former Times journalist and press secretary to John [READ ON]
October 2014
Count Bucknella goes shopping
LAST minute Halloween fans have been forming crazy, Wimbledon-style queues outside Escapade, the well-known fancy dress shop in Chalk Farm, for the last three days. [READ ON]
H & St P: ‘Day one’
GIVEN how long we’ve been banging on about it, it seems strange that Labour’s parliamentary selection contest in Holborn and St Pancras was only officially [READ ON]
Ken’s little Jimmy Savile joke
STUDENTS at the London School for Economics in Holborn have got their uni newspaper, The Beaver, back firing on all cylinders, and this week publish an interview with former [READ ON]
You see where an interview in your local paper can lead…?
MY colleague Peter Gruner, who writes for the Islington Tribune, got a nice little namecheck on ITV’s Lorraine (Kelly) show this morning. There James Bowen and [READ ON]
Porn actress trolls borough commander
AFTER getting Camden Council and local police in a sweat on Friday afternoon with plans to bring her ‘sex tour’ to the borough, Rebecca More seemed unrepentant [READ ON]
Off topic: Radio Raheem’s boombox
IF anybody has at least three grand spare to spare and wants to buy me an early Christmas present, please head straight to an auction room in New York and get me the [READ ON]
Sex tour: To press release or not to press release…
THE attention seekers at Television X have got the council in a bit of a bind with their plan to bring one of its performers, Rebecca More, to Camden tomorrow as part of a [READ ON]
Sheila
“IT was just one of those ideas that came into my head,” Sheila Gunn confessed. “It wasn’t based on any justification. It wasn’t really much [READ ON]
So long Charlie, the lorry-driving councillor
CHARLIE Hedges was a decent guy; an old school councillor the like of which you don’t really see knocking about the council any more. He proved that, during his time [READ ON]
Richard Osley 