THE world’s very first YMCA has announced its closure and sale leaving members blindsided and staff concerned about their jobs at Christmas. The Central YMCA, which opened in 1844, has been at its ...

Kendall Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s best-selling 1936 book Ballet Shoes is beautifully staged by Katy Rudd. Three babies, Posy, Pauline and Petrova, are rescued by eccentric ...

• HAVING endured the brickbats and panto-season newspeak of the full council meeting, I had hoped that serious non-political consideration would be given to the proposed changes to licensing in Camden ...

OUR relationship with the natural world was at the heart of Evelyn Dunbar’s art. The sole woman to be employed as an official war artist during the Second World War turned her eye to the home front, ...

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 ...

NHS workers have warned patients are trapped in the “mother of all gridlocks” at the Royal Free Hospital’s A&E – with some facing 24-hour waits in trolleys in corridors before being admitted. Nurses ...

Opinion: It says a lot about someone’s character to opt for a team 200 miles away just because they are winning ALWAYS enjoyable to see Arsenal beat Manchester United, whatever the day, whatever the ...

YOU can peel back the layers of history at a street corner on Kentish Town Road. Look up to the rooftop and you’ll spot a sign for “The Old Farm House”, a late-Victorian public house that vanished ...