OBITUARY writing has been in decline for some time. When somebody famous dies these days, shift reporters will be sent to quickly find tributes to the departed, which will essentially mean a trawl of ...

WOULD you allow a hole to be drilled into your garden fence to promote Hampstead Heath’s hedgehog population? Organisations Growing Green and Heath Hands are on a mission to create a “hedgehog highway ...

CHILDHOOD friends of a 12-year-old boy stabbed to death in a busy London street by a self-declared satanist have demanded that the killer is not released until he has spent at least 30 years in prison ...

MUSIC lives for ever, with a bit of help from those who make it; but the makers come and go. And so it was that, back in 2020, the very eminent Endellion String Quartet decided to put down their bows ...

AS teenagers they spent their evenings at a Kilburn youth club. Jamaican-born, they experienced the same challenges of settling in a new country – and found a way of expressing it. The youngsters ...

Richard Webber, Michael Hammerson, John Plews and Camden Mayor Samata Khatoon take a look at the new Visit Highgate signboard in Pond Square TOURISTS who think you only visit Highgate to see its ...

PINS and Needles is presented as verbatim drama. A writer, Rob Drummond (Gavi Singh Chera), walks on stage to tell us about his research into the politics surrounding vaccinations. He introduces three ...

WHEN a leadership election unfolds, particularly in the Labour Party, the labels begin to fly around. Camden’s recently-installed new Number One has probably most often being described as a “centrist” ...

A MYSTERY vandal has whitewashed popular street art in Belsize Park – but one piece has survived the attack. The Make Tea Not War stencil by Bambi, which recreated a New Journal photograph of ...

A SLICE of brick wall has been left as an “eyesore” in the heart of Somers Town with neighbours locked in a dispute over demolition plans. One half of the divide is what remains of the 42 Phoenix Road ...

A SENIOR Tory at the London Assembly has waded into the row over an upcoming car ban in some Dartmouth Park roads, warning that people in the streets affected were not being listened to. Andrew Boff ...

ADOBE’S eye-catching interest in Camden Town WFC – our local team in the seventh tier of women’s football – has transformed the way the club looks, and helped tell the story of its ambition to reach ...