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| | | CAMDEN COUNCIL reportedly has more than £80million of cash reserves, and among its educational ambitions is a well-advanced plan to build a new academy of excellence in the borough. Apparently it has no end of money to spend on divers amusements like p... » MORE
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Parents looking for a state-funded non-faith school face a stark choice – pay, drive to the other end of Camden, pretend to be religious or move away, says ward councillor Alexis Rowell Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate Chris Philp wrote... » MORE
Victory! My first budget was approved by the London Assembly this week, withstanding the forensic scrutiny of some and swatting away the tired apathy of others. So I m pleased to say that from April, Londoners will not pay a penny more in the GLA share of... » MORE
MY post bag has been weighed down this week with letters on the issues of Gaza and the third runway at Heathrow. I wrote of Gaza last month so this month I want to tell you my views on the third runway. The Government has of course at long last made the... » MORE
Increasingly, evidence shows that being in the countryside is good for the body and the mind. It is said that communing with nature , or however you may wish to describe this most basic and fundamentally personal of experiences, helps ease burdens on lim... » MORE
A really comfortable pair of shoes is something to treasure. You take care of them, look forward to wearing them, and the experience is one of easy pleasure. So it is with the Heath. It is open and available all year. It invites you into its subtly changi... » MORE
THE tragedy of Baby P s death has hung over all our lives during the last week. The depth of public anger and outrage is enormous – reflected in my postbag, email inbox and phone calls to my office. Our justice system has done its part with the prosecutio... » MORE
Camden Labour supporter Tulip Siddiq reports from the Ohio campaign trail as an historic US election reached its climax MORE THAN 40 years have passed since Martin Luther King uttered these impassioned words: I ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! If King had exc... » MORE
Part One of Hampstead Heath Management Plan identified two actions concerning use of the Heath by pedestrians and cyclists. It was agreed that surveys would be carried out to establish who uses the Heath and obtain accurate information about the number o... » MORE
However much David Cameron may try to persuade us to the contrary, scratch the surface of the Tories and you ll find the hard right Thatcherite agenda has not gone away, and its Neanderthal tendency is increasingly ready to speak out with the low paid and... » MORE
IN less than a week Hampstead Heath will be celebrating a new addition, with the transfer of almost a hectare of land from the Athlone House site. This is one of the last few remaining private tracts of land surrounding the Heath and is the first time in... » MORE
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