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Election News: Local Elections 2010
Coverage from Ham&High reporters in Camden, Haringey, Barnet and Westminster
THE new mystery parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn who got the rumour mill turning with her elusive posters, has been revealed as activist Tamsin Omond. Last week we reported how posters claiming to be from a new... » MORE
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SIAN Berry has been in the Green Party for eight years and has fought six different elections in Camden and Londonwide. She is currently organising online campaigns for the party across the country, but especially in Norwich and Brighton where the Greens... » MORE
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ALMOST 30 years ago the so-called gang of four decided to break away from the Labour Party and set up the Social Democrats which through later merging and morphing became today s Liberal Democrats. Three decades on, the third party in our t... » MORE
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BARNET'S most formidable Liberal Democrat couple who between them have more than 40 years experience in politics are this year calling on residents to make them the party of local government. Monroe and Susette Palmer, both councillors for... » MORE
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LOOK at the numbers and they ll tell you that Mike Freer's announcement as the next MP for Finchley and Golders Green is a foregone conclusion. In 2005 Labour s Rudi Vis, who is stepping down at this election, won just 741 more votes than his Conservativ... » MORE
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Renowned Hampstead actor Tom Conti is on the board of the London Motorists Action Group, set up to campaign for fair enforcement of parking and similar regulations. He thinks Labour should be thrown out at the election because they have been selling peopl... » MORE
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BARNET Council is more akin to shopping website Amazon than no-frills airline EasyJet, says its new leader Lynne Hillan. The Conservative councillor is Barnet s first female leader. She took over from Mike Freer – who is standing in the general election i... » MORE
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THE ongoing chaos caused by Jubilee line weekend closures has become a cause celebre among Hampstead and Kilburn politicians. Conservative parliamentary candidate Chris Philp organised a meeting on Monday giving residents the chance to quiz... » MORE
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ALISON Moore is someone who has spent a long time waiting in the wings. That may sound like a strange observation of the leader of Barnet Council s Labour group, who has served as a councillor for 12 years taking on high-profile posts such as education c... » MORE
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Best-selling author and West Hampstead resident Kathy Lette is a staunch Labour supporter. She hopes Labour wins the election to avoid the country being run by a bunch of Etonians out of touch with real people. She said: If Cameron was elected, Westminst... » MORE
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A ROW over conflict in the Middle East has broken out in Camden with Tories accusing the Lib Dems of using the issue for political gain. The Lib Dems have been putting out leaflets in the south of the borough calling for a stop to arms for... » MORE
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Susanna Wilkey RADICAL left-wing protester Tariq Ali has dismissed the current political system at a talk – saying all the parties had come to be the same and meaningful debate had died. As an activist, author and film-maker since the 1960s, Mr Ali told a... » MORE
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Australian-born Amanda Platell is a columnist for the Daily Mail and The Guardian. The journalist, who has also worked for the Daily Mirror, has lived in Hampstead for 15 years. Speaking after she gave a fundraising talk for Hampstead and Kilburn s Torie... » MORE
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WAR reporter and politics guru Martin Bell has warned that the rise of the BNP should not be overstated in the election as that would lead to other small parties being disproportionally censored. The Hampstead Garden Suburb journalist, who s... » MORE
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GREEN politicians across Camden, Barnet and Haringey are delighted their spring party conference is being held in Finchley giving them a welcome election boost and only a couple of Tube stops to travel. The four-day conference starting on F... » MORE
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LOCAL Liberal Democrats have attacked a council advertising campaign – saying it costs taxpayers £264,000. Crouch End councillor and scrutiny committee member David Winskill said cash spent on the My Haringey campaign could have been better spent. In s... » MORE
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