Interview with Will Blair: Parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party in Holborn and St Pancras
Next year’s General Election will mark a watershed for Camden as the long serving Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Frank Dobson, will be retiring. His party have yet to announce who will take his place as candidate, but the Conservative Party have chosen theirs. Will Blair is already busy campaigning while holding down a full time job. He took time out of his schedule to come into our studio and talked to Ann Carroll about his fondness for Camden, his background, handling social media and the threat from Ukip. She began by asking him why he was standing.
The full list of candidates is:
Natalie Bennett, Green Party
Will Blair, Conservative Party
Jill Fraser, Liberal Democrat Party
Vanessa Helen Hudson, Animal Welfare Party
Shane O’Donnell, Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol
David O’Sullivan, Socialist Equality Party
Maxine Spencer, UK Independence Party
Keir Starmer, Labour Party
Package by: Ann Carroll
- Keir Starmer talks to Ann Carroll
- Labour Party Candidate
- Jill Fraser talks to Ann Carroll
- Liberal Democrat Candidate
- Natalie Bennett talks to Ann Carroll
- Green Party Candidate
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Camden Newscast June 2014
In this months Newscast, Sarah O’Brien gets views from Islington Council and The Mount Pleasant Association about the Royal Mail Group’s development proposal for the Mount Pleasant sorting office site. So far councils and local community groups object to this proposal but Mayor Johnson has taken it out of their hands and is due to make a decision at the end of July, public consultation ends on the 27th June.
Freddy Chick talks to residents of the Regents Park Estate about the loss of 168 council homes and businesses in Drummond Street, who are all set to lose their properties to make way for HS2.
Ann Carroll talks to Colin Blunstone from the 60’s band the Zombies, about his solo work, touring fifty years after you started and further albums with the Zombies.
Presented: Sarah O’Brien
Reporting: Freddy Chick, Sarah O’Brien & Ann Carroll
Edited: Sarah O’Brien
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Camden Newscast - 13
Nearly five thousand s patients will be left without a GP due to the Camden Road Surgery closing. A dedicated protester brought the issue to the Camden Community Radio door step, literally…
Camden is taking on a novel approach to street drinking with a new initiative: The Camden departure lounge, Lollipops, squash and flip flops will be part of the wardens tool kit for the drunk.The London Housing Strategy is supposed to ensure that people get the housing needed. Will low and middle income people be pushed out of Camden?
And another sporting event…or is that an event for the sporting…
Presented by: Jayson Mansaray
Features by: Jayson Mansaray, Marita Hutson & Marian Larragy
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Camden People Fund £150,000 transition funding
This week Camden Community Radio visit the town hall and a community centre to discuss a brand new transition fund that has been allocated to Camden’s good neighbour scheme via the Camden People fund. Darryl McKay reports
- Social care & health
- Highgate Newtown Community Centre
- 020 7272 7201
- Councillor Patricia Callaghan
- Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health
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