Helen Mirren as scheming Maeve in Mobland

OUR new newsletter service, NewJournal+, is well and truly up and running.

People who have signed up are receiving an emailed digest of everything that’s been happening in Camden and Islington, and bonus stories and features that take you behind the headlines.

This week, with adverts for Guy Ritchie’s new crime series on Paramount, MobLand plastered across every other London bus, Tom Foot investigated the rise of the street drug the warring families are battling for control of.

That’s fentanyl and nitazenes, which have had near fatal effects for users trapped in addiction in Camden.

Some chart it at being 500 times more dangerous than heroin.

Our extra material on NewJournal+ won’t always be this dark, but it’s an issue right on our doorstep in Camden Road that we can’t ignore and walk past.

There are both free and paid subscriptions to our newsletters, and those who choose to
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It’s no secret that newspapers and media outlets are facing the toughest financial terrain ever experi­enced – even if they do all the right things and choose campaigning, investigative, challenging journalism over celebrity clickbait and regurgitated press releases.

In our 43-year history we’ve never gone down the road of the latter and every penny from a paid subscription simply goes back into covering the costs of everything we do each week, in print and online, with a team of committed, experienced reporters.

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NORTH LONDON BUBBLE – EVERY WEEKEND

Sir Keir Starmer at a press conference on migration this week [Lauren Hurley_Downing Street]

IF you like to keep tuned into our local politics with a bit of analysis – and a bit of gossip – then look out for our new column, the North London Bubble.

It is available with a paid NewJournal+ subscription and is published every weekend.

While some of our coverage at times may frustrate our councillors and MPs, the Tribune has provided unrivalled coverage of the political scene in Camden and Islington in recent years.

And what a scene it is: here are two Labour-run councils getting ready for perhaps a far more unpredictable set of boroughwide elections next year.

Our council chambers are breeding grounds for future MPs and it often feels like all political roads eventually lead back to north London.