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Digest: Ye Olde pub latest, refugee hotel closes and good luck Frankie

It's our weekly round-up of news from Camden and Islington

Sep 23 • New Journal+

One last comeback – or the last days of lap-dancing?

Boarded up and surrounded by tents, Spearmint Rhino's grand flagship venue has not opened since Covid.

Sep 1 • New Journal+ and Richard Osley

Do you want a Starbucks or a Costa on Hampstead Heath?

The City of London can't say it's surprised at the campaign against its business plan for the cafes on London's great open space – but does the…

Aug 17 • New Journal+ and Dan Carrier

The hotel 'prison': the human side of the immigration protests

Tension over asylum seekers living in hotels has reached north London – why?

Aug 9 • Isabel Loubser

Definition of callous: The killer who tried to claim the reward for his murder

How could somebody kill in the middle of Camden High Street – and escape?

Aug 2 • Richard Osley

Dead End Street: Why have these affordable homes been left empty and unfinished?

A developer in north London has completed its set of 'luxury homes' – but no longer wants to go on with the work on the other side of the poor door

Jul 26 • Frankie Lister-Fell

'Master thief or madman' The window cleaner who 'kidnapped' a Vermeer

Nephew says his uncle stole priceless painting from Kenwood – but was wrongly convicted for diamond heist

Jun 28 • Tom Foot

Built by Mandelson 'with his bare hands'

North London Bubble #19: The many lives of the Prince of Darkness, a bomb bunker's new flag and more intrigue in Holborn

Sep 15 • New Journal+, Isabel Loubser, and Richard Osley

Digest: Moonshot magic, football hate crime and a new museum for Camden Town

Tim for another catch-up on what's been happening in Camden and Islington

Sep 9 • New Journal+ and Frankie Lister-Fell

What happens next after *that* by-election result

North London Bubble #18: Georgia Gould gets a promotion, Labour work out what went wrong in by-election and Jeremy Corbyn still can't think of a name…

Sep 8 • New Journal+, Richard Osley, and Isabel Loubser

Digest: A D-Day hero, a landslide election and the wrong day to climb the clocktower

The summer holidays are over... almost

Sep 2 • New Journal+

An election test? It's all eyes on West Hampstead

North London Bubble #17: Primrose Hill's 'single mum' back on the campaign trail, Diane Abbott's Corbyn warning and so long Wilf Mbanga – the cat

Aug 25 • New Journal+, Richard Osley, and Isabel Loubser

Digest: Terence Stamp in Hampstead, more water pipe floods and a cat stuck in a fox trap

Another week, another round-up

Aug 19 • New Journal+ and Tom Foot