Francesca Lister-Fell

London

Assistant Editor at Camden New Journal

Assistant editor at @NewJournal / Reporter of the Year (2025) / Get in touch: [email protected]

Articles

Lemonia - and Lime! Famous restaurant swamped by hire bikes

1 day ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Tony Evangelou at Lemonia in Primrose HillA FAMILY-RUN Greek restaurant which has been part of the fabric of Primrose Hill for nearly 50 years says it is being swamped by hire bikes left outside. Tony Evangelou, owner of Lemonia in Regent’s Park Road, which over the years has been a favourite spot among many famous faces including actor Jude Law, singers Harry Styles and Rita Ora, said he had “put his back out ” trying to clear a path for deliveries.
Dead End Street? Developer wants to pull out of affordable housing pledge

6 days ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Labour ward councillor James Slater has been left fuming that an application has gone in to switch the units to a private saleA DEVELOPER which left a block of affordable flats half-finished and vacant for seven years now wants to sell the homes off at full market rate. Four Quarters scored planning consent and built a 20-flat scheme in Wiblin Mews, Kentish Town in 2017 – with a pledge to provide eight cheaper homes.
Morris dancing at the top of Primrose HIll

6 days ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

The Belles of London City see the sun come upWITH its village green image of greying, older chaps with beards hopping about, perhaps between a gulp of ale, Morris dancing was once fiercely protected as a traditional folk dance reserved for troupes of men. But if you had got up at the crack of dawn last week, you would have seen things have changed from how the old guard might once have wanted it. An all-women Morris dancing group appeared at the summit of Primrose Hill to celebrate May Day.
Tributes paid to ‘luminous’ Cleo at the Actors’ Church

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Zeb Soanes, Jax King, Ben Onwukwe, Sara Kestelman and Cecilia DarkerTHE “Actors’ Church” in Covent Garden was packed to the rafters with people, some who had travelled from Australia, to celebrate the life of the “luminous” actor, singer and playwright Cleo Sylvestre. Ms Sylvestre died from a stroke last year, aged 79, after a varied career across the arts, having grown up on the Regent’s Park Estate.
Charity snubs Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over constituency office move

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Sir Keir Starmer’s team had expressed an interest moving into the Greenwood Centre in Kentish Town [New Journal]SIR Keir Starmer has been blocked from moving his constituency office into a building run by a disabled organisation. The prime minister – who is also the MP for Holborn and St Pancras – was told by the charity’s members that the request was “ill-timed” and “inappropriate” following Labour’s recent welfare cuts.
600 children and young people living in temporary accommodation in Camden,

3 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

The team from Streets KitchenSIX-hundred children and young people are currently living in temporary accommodation in Camden, a council meeting heard this week. The equivalent of two primary schools’ worth of children are not living in secure housing in the borough. “And what’s most concerning for us is that number is growing,” Abi Knight, public health consultant at Raise Camden, said at a debate on homelessness and temporary accommodation at a full council meeting last Monday night.
Four banned from sleeping in a tent in Camden Town

3 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Tents in Camden GardensSOME homeless people are being banned from sleeping rough in a large area in Camden Town and have been warned their tents and belongings will be removed if they do not leave the area. The order comes two years after the then leader of Camden Council, Georgia Gould, stood up in a public meeting to declare that disposing of rough sleepers’ belongings would not happen again.
Sir Michael Palin warns of developer threat to Gospel Oak neighbourhood’s ‘soul’

3 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Sir Michael Palin with Lindsay Mackie and Foyezur MiahSIR MICHAEL Palin shared his love for living in Gospel Oak, a “special place that’s not pretending to be something it’s not”, at a community event on Monday night. On the same day that he finished penning his latest book – on his travels around Venezuela – the Monty Python actor journeyed down the road from his home in Oak Village to give a talk at the Queen’s Crescent Community Association (QCCA).
‘I’ve seen it happen, people die when benefits are taken away’

1 month ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Angus BeatonA WOMAN has warned of the consequences of stopping disability benefits after her brother died from a drug overdose. Camden Town resident Alison Charlton said she feared “people will die” as a result of Labour’s plan to cut personal independence payments (PIP) She said her brother Angus Beaton’s life changed for the worse when his PIP was axed under the Conservative government. The 69-year-old fell into a life of despair and drug use before his death in 2019.
‘I’ve seen it happen, people die when benefits are taken away’

1 month ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Francesca Lister-Fell

Angus BeatonA WOMAN has warned of the consequences of stopping disability benefits after her brother died from a drug overdose. Camden Town resident Alison Charlton said she feared “people will die” as a result of Labour’s plan to cut personal independence payments (PIP) She said her brother Angus Beaton’s life changed for the worse when his PIP was axed under the Conservative government. The 69-year-old fell into a life of despair and drug use before his death in 2019.