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2 weeks ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Primrose Hill [Rajiv Bhuttan]A DECISION to disband a crime-fighting unit of police in the Royal Par [Rajob ks has been branded “reckless” and “absurd” by campaigners. For more than 130 years specialist officers have worked in Regent’s Park, Primrose Hill, Hyde Park and other famous London green spaces. But around 80 officers are set to be re-assigned into neighbourhood policing teams in November to save cash.
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2 weeks ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
The Kooks with their favourite weekly readCAMDEN Town’s streets are no stranger to impromptu performances – but people out for a lunchtime stroll were surprised to find the two guys with guitars playing under a bridge were indie rock royalty The Kooks. A crowd grew in Castlehaven Road on Monday to hear the duo play some of their old favourites and tunes from their new album Never/Know.
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3 weeks ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Mik Scarlett in part-pedestrianised Camden High StreetA scheme to pedestrianise part of Camden High Street has been hailed as a win for clean air and safer streets for visitors. But disabled residents say the way the barriers and bollards have been installed has left them feeling frozen out. Camden Council is two weeks into an 18-month trial of the measures which has closed off a section from the tube station to Jamestown Road to traffic.
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3 weeks ago | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Anna Lamche with Gary YoungeONE of the Islington Tribune’s former reporters has won the prestigious Orwell Society award for review-writing. Anna Lamche, who lives in north London, was handed the prize by George Orwell’s son, Richard, at the society’s AGM on Saturday. She is now a reporter at the BBC where, as it happens, Mr Orwell also worked for a spell during his career.
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3 weeks ago | 
westminsterextra.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Daljang Wol died with four fellow university students in a car crash in Essex in FebruaryA FOUNDATION has been set up in the name of a talented basketball player who died in a car crash. Former Westminster School pupil Daljang Wol, 22, was one of four university students killed in a collision in Colchester on February 1.
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1 month ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Anna Mazoni at the Parkway DelicatessenA TRADITIONAL Italian deli that has been a staple in the Parkway community for 50 years fears it may have to shut up shop as increased business rates put its future in doubt. The Parkway Delicatessen was opened in 1975 by the Mazzoni family from Lugagano Val d’Arda near Milan.
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1 month ago | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
‘Chewing Gum Man’ Ben Wilson, whose work is currently on show at an exhibition in Gray’s Inn RoadYOU may have seen him lying horizontal, eyeliner to the pavement working on a colourful, miniature masterpiece on the streets we pound every day. Ben Wilson, better known as the Chewing Gum Man – the artist who has been painting art on discarded chewing gum for more than 20 years – is displaying his work at an exhibition in Gray’s Inn Road.
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1 month ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
The branch in Hampstead High StreetTHE Post Office has announced it will stop directly managing high street services – increasing fears that the Hampstead branch will close. The only guarantee offered to campaigners calling for the one in Hampstead High Street to be protected is that there will be a franchise running somewhere within a mile radius. The last two months have seen a series of warnings of how residents and businesses in the area still see it as a vital part of their lives.
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1 month ago | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
Jamie Gillan with his son Albert as the stall opened in HampsteadA GREENGROCER is starting up his new family business in the area where he grew up – hoping to sell the best quality fruit and veg to the community. Jamie Gillan, has greengrocer blood in his family so it is no surprise he has decided to take the opportunity to launch his new family business Gillan & Sons in the Hampstead Community Market on the high street.
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1 month ago | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Caitlin Maskell
This year’s Breakin’ Convention will feature acts from across Europe [Paul Hampartsoumian]OVER two decades since it started, the acclaimed Breakin’ Convention is returning to Sadler’s Wells as its creative director speaks to the Tribune about the changing nature of hip-hop.
