Camden New Journal

15/08/2025

RIP Leonard 'Liquid Lenny' Bass. Born in Somers Town, he had many adventures over the years, here and abroad - often with his son John. He took a final wicket on a cricket tour a week before his death, aged 72. The funeral at St Mary's Church was packed out. Obituary below.

17/07/2025

A Conservative councillor has resigned after getting into a row with a shop owner about what ID was needed to collect a parcel. He is alleged to have said that he was a councillor and threatened to get the business shut down during the dispute.

13/07/2025

Imagine this outside your house all summer

A famous face has had enough! See comments for story

05/07/2025

We asked the police why shops keep getting their windows smashed in Hampstead, but the answer was less than illuminating

05/07/2025

A colourful life

Anthony Earl-Williams dies a few weeks after talking about his life in the CNJ

03/07/2025

The skeleton in the school cupboard:
Tom Foot reports on how a woman whose remains were on display in a biology classroom for decades has now been given a burial service. She had died around 200 years ago.

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30/06/2025

ICYMI What's been happening in Camden

Here's your Monday update from NewJournal+

30/06/2025

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30/06/2025

Another tower block lift nightmare

Residents fearful of using tower block elevators

30/06/2025

Lots of you know Eddie. Here's his story:

Borough's first citizen came to London as a teenager after the civil war in Sierra Leone

28/06/2025

Remembering Phil Cowan, a tireless campaigner in Primrose Hill

28/06/2025

In 1974, a priceless painting by Vermeer was stolen from Kenwood House. For ten weeks, detectives were led a dance about where it had gone – before a deal for it to be left in a churchyard.
Now, the nephew of the man who took it is ready to tell the whole story.

See comments for the story.