Tensions have flared between boaters and homeowners on London’s increasingly crowded canals. The focal point of the argument is in Islington where woodsmoke and late-night engine noise from the canal have been impacting local residents. But the overcrowding and stress on the canals stretches throughout the city and is serious enough to have prompted the London Assembly to launch an investigation. Its remit is to find out more about what problems there are and to suggest ways of solving them.

Freddy Chick checked it out.

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Camden Community Radio, Playing music that we think YOU will like!!!!!!

The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra ( feat Bitty McLean): Track – “ Fu Man Chu”

Hold the Suspect: Tracks: “Say Goodbye for Now” & “Time on our Hands”

Presented: Irene McGarvey

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Medical Research Council celebrates 100 Years of work with a Family Fun Day on Saturday 29th June at University College London, Gower Street. There will be lab tours, hands-on activities games and exhibitions. Maiden Lane Community Centre has a BBQ and fun day for local residents on Saturday 29th. Book now to get a place on the Summer Play Scheme at Camden Square Play Centre, Call 020 7485 6827.

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There will be a Summer Holiday Play Scheme at Camden Square for children aged 4 to 12 years of age, from 233rd July to 30th August 2013, with:

To Book a place, contact Maiden Lane Community Centre, 020 7485 6827 or email [email protected]

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The weekend of 15th & 16th has the first ever (Emily) Wilding Festival at St George’s Church, Bloomsbury; Camden events for National Bike Festival all week; British Library seminar on impact of Social Media with Professors Helen Margetts and David Gauntlett; Open City Docs Festival comes ot Euston, Bloomsbury Theatre and University College. There is advance warning of the rooftop Bar-B-Q at Maiden Lane Community Centre on Saturday 29th June and news of the Summer Holiday PlayScheme at Camden Square which has breakfast club, extended day and core day for children aged 4 to 12 years of age. APPLY NOW at Maiden Lane Community Centre.

Read by: Freddy Chick, Mainga Bhima & Marian Larragy

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Natalie Prentice talks with Tosh. Package: Natalie Prentice

Joe Hughes talks with DJ Rudeboy

DJ Rudeboy P. Tosh starts to chat with Joe Hughes about Joe’s former Gospel Music programme on SKFM radio. Then they get to talking about the specific difficulties each faces; Joe has Aspergers Syndrone and Tash is Dyslexic with ADHD.

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This week there’s a MacMillan Rock’n’Roll fundraiser at The Enterprise; an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Women in Parliament at th Theatro Technis; a production of Britten’s Noah’s Flood at Union Chapel and the Camden Challenge project is looking for your ideas to improve life in Camden.

Read by: Marian Larragy, DJ Tosh, Lucy Waterhouse, Mainga Bhima, Joseph Hughes and Freddie Chick

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Asha Kin Duale is settled in Camden, where she promotes good child protection practice in local communities. She has recently been to Somalia where she has been helping to create the future peace by being involved with reviewing the new Somali constitution. Here she talks with CCRadio’s Marian Larragy about the history of the Somali nation state; the rise of Islamic fundamentalist thinking in Somalia; the causes and consequences of outside interventions in Somalia; her own history as a human rights lawyer; the source of her knowledge about the Islamic teaching of the Prophet Mohamed; After you have listened to this segment of the interview, click on the links to the right to hear the other segments.

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Find out how the Metropolitan Police are planning to use Tasers, meet the new Borough Commander and hear how crime and anti social behaviour are being reduced. Survivor of Institutional abuse in Ireland, Mary Lodato will be talking about the road to recovering her who self, at the Feminist Library on Sunday 19th May; The Festival of Asian Literature comes to a close at Asia House with a conversation between Maya Jaggi and Tan Twan Eng. ‘How Can Art?’ youth sessions are taking place at the Camden Arts Centre .

Read by: Mainga Bhima, Marian Larragy & DJ P.Tosh

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B-Better dance classes for all ages at Winchester Road; Amy Lamé is at the Camden People’s Theatre with ‘Unhappy Birthday’. Artist Adam Walker leads this summer’s Make and Do at Camden Arts Centre and will use aspects of the Dieter Roth exhibition ‘Diaries’ , which is currently being exhibited there. On 17th May, the British Library at Euston Road, opens a summer exhibition, ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion’, looking at how different states used propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Edited by: Mainga Bhima & Lucy Waterhouse

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