IT was lights, camera, action in Primrose Hill again this week as film crews descended on Regent’s Park Road and Chamberlain Street to shoot a new romcom movie. The cast hard at work included Emilia ...

THE judges of the Regional Press Awards – our industry’s ‘Oscars’ – have decided that two of the top five weekly reporters in the UK write for the Camden New Journal. It was revealed on Friday that ...

FOR many years a full-sized stuffed bison stood guard in Chalk Farm Road – advertising the renowned Reject Pot Shop. The bison is sadly no longer there and the pot shop, which has been in place since ...

IT is, according to tenants, an annual tradition. As soon as the cold weather sets in the communal boilers on Holly Lodge estate pack up, leaving people in freezing conditions for weeks at a time. And ...

A MUSEUM in Clerkenwell has been nominated for the national Family Friendly Museum award. For the second time, the Museum of the Order of St John was shortlisted for a prize given by the Kids in ...

The Tempest is perhaps best understood as a final conjuring by Shakespeare, a kind of melancholic farewell to the island of ...

A MIGHTY £4,285 was raised for the New Journal’s hamper fund at the annual Sheephaven Bay Christmas pub quiz on Monday night. The bar in Camden Town was packed as 42 teams turned out to play. It all ...

THE Liberal Democrats may be underpowered in the council chamber on numbers, but they can claim the political bragging rights for a few weeks after beating their Labour rivals on the football pitch on ...

A RESPECTED former councillor who founded and helped maintain a series charities in Paddington and was the husband of Karen Buck MP has died, it was announced this week. Barrie Taylor, who died on ...

THE director of the Marx Memorial Library has said the building’s collection has “never been more relevant”. Meirian Jump of the library in Clerkenwell Green said the archive of rare documents and ...

VIRGINIA Gay’s gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, an irreverent rom-com, is a hoot if a little rough around the edges. Cyrano (Gay), a queer woman, has a charming way ...

DOG walkers and a Christmas tree seller rushed to take a woman to hospital after she slipped on Hampstead Heath and broke her ankle. Passers-by assisting the woman, who was in her late fifties, called ...