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The Royal Mail have finally put the Mount Pleasant site on the market. You can download the sales brochure via this link to the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Forum's website https://mountpleasantforum.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/rmg-mount-pleasant-brochure.pdf With less than 18 months left before the Royal Mail’s planning p...

Moped rider wins High Court battle over £130 parking fine in Camden, reports the Evening Standard A moped rider who returned from holiday to discover he had been issued a £130 parking ticket has won a test case to overturn the fine. Robert Humphreys, 71, parked his scooter in a motorcycle bay near Euston station in August...

There are big changes heading our way on 1st April. It’s not an April Fool’s joke.  It’s all to do with the terms of Camden’s new Environmental Services contract. Rubbish will be collected only ONCE A WEEK.  That means General rubbish, Recycling and Food waste - once a week.  If you want garden waste removed you will need t...

Confused about sorting your recycling?  What's rubbish and what's not?  Here's a handy guide from Camden. What can I put in my recycling containers? The following items can be placed loose inside your green recycling container: Paper – newspaper, telephone directories, envelopes and office paper Plastic – pots, tubs, tr...

Our councillors form an important part of how we live in Camden. The council makes decisions on our behalf guided, we hope, by what we tell the council we want. Clearly not all of us will agree with everything that is decided - and, in fact, some decisions may be particularly annoying.  However, our ward councillors Sue, Awale...

Get Safe Online has issued a warning to the UK public to be careful when accessing private data on public Wi-Fi hotspots. The UK now over 300,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots, with more people than ever becoming the target of cyber criminals simply because they don’t know if the networks they’re using are secure. It may sound like a...

We all consider our neighbourhood of Holborn as a thriving community.  Local author David Mathieson reminds us that it wasn't always so. In his timely book, Radical London, he takes us back to the riots and unrest of the 1960's which saw the most appalling violence and destruction. From Red Lion Square to Bedord Row and Theoba...

HV noticed that the famous tile "Can we PLAY in your garden when you close down our playground" has been removed from the wall next to the westbound bus stop on Theobalds Road by Grays Inn Road. Perhaps the evident protest against swingeing cuts is no longer needed?  Or are the Old Etonian decision-makers responsible for cut...

Courtesy of The Londonist: We've all heard it. "Can you tell me where Lie-sester Square is?". English place names can be a bit of a challenge to the outsider. Even longtime Londoners might struggle with some pronunciations. Hands up who's contemplated the correct way to say 'Theydon Bois'? Here's a quick guide to some of t...

Have you seen the workmen?  Do you remember the consultation in January?  Well... the results are in and even faster, the approval for these works has already happened. Two new zebra crossings outside167 and 200 Gray’s Inn Road, relocate two  existing crossings outside 61 and 199 Gray’s Inn Road  Raise the zebra cross...