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Camden Today covers the London borough of Camden: Camden Town, Kentish Town, Hampstead and West Hampstead, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage, Primrose Hill, Chalk Farm, Gospel Oak, Dartmouth Park, Somers Town, Euston, King’s Cross, Bloomsbury, Holborn and the Camden side of Kilburn. We report what the borough’s own records show, the planning applications Camden Council registers week by week, the decisions and announcements it publishes, police crime figures, hygiene ratings and the businesses opening and closing across NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, WC1 and EC1N. We also keep the everyday information you look up more than once accurate and in one place, checked against the source and dated.

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Every story is built from a named public source: Camden Council’s own newsroom, its open register of current planning applications, police.uk crime data, the Food Standards Agency’s hygiene ratings, The Gazette and Companies House. We link to that source so you can check it yourself, and we say when we last updated a figure.

Two things shape what counts as a Camden story here. The borough’s edges are untidy: Kilburn is split with Brent, and King’s Cross and St Pancras run up against the Islington boundary, so we confirm an address before we call it ours. And Camden hosts a lot of national institutions, from the British Library and UCL to St Pancras International; their announcements are national news with a Camden postcode, and we cover them when they change something for people who live here.