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PG-based artist Cathy Taylor invites you to a free event this Sunday afternoon where you can try your hand at traditional Chinese brush painting, in the beautiful surroundings of Broomfield Conservatory. Suitable for ages 14 to 114.

A recent Enfield Council video has information and warnings about how to use your blue top recycling bin.

On Saturday 29th March the lovely Angel Yard in Upper Edmonton will be the setting for a special Spring event organised by Fore Street for All bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, with a focus on a more sustainable way of living.

Kevin Croft from Friends of Arnos Park invites local people to join the friendly and inclusive group's monthly groundforce days in the community garden/growing space.

If you go along to art galleries hoping to experience the sublime, then the exhibition that's on at the Southgate Club in Chase Side is probably not for you. But if it's the ridiculous that 'grabs you by your shakers and lifts you like a wing', then you're in for a treat.

The latest addition to the PGC Community Directory is a bowls club off Hedge Lane, just over the New River bridge.

The Southgate Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team, together with the council's Journeys and Places Team and the Met Police, are running an event on 14th March to find out women's feelings about their safety in Southgate town centre.

On the afternoon of Friday 21st March the Southgate Beaumont care home on Cannon Hill will be hosting an exhibition of paintings by Regina Skrida, inspired by the beautiful landscapes of her native Lithuania.

Artists have until 21st March to submit entries to the third Enfield Community Art Exhibition, which will be held in Palmers Green in June, in the revamped Devonshire Square and at Arbeit Studios off Green Lanes.

Enfield Council has dropped its plans to create a controlled parking zone in 'Palmers Green East'. The results of a public consultation held last year indicated overwhelming opposition to the proposal, while a residents' group opposed to the CPZ and another planned for Arnos Grove had threatened legal action, claiming that that the proposals were unlawful.

Local campaigners opposed to proposals for housebuilding on countryside in the north of Enfield borough were among the first to hear about an appeal today to the mayor of London to abandon plans for a review of the Green Belt and instead tackle the 'real causes' of the housing crisis.

PG resident Steve Acroyd has been undergoing expensive treatment for a rare type of brain cancer. He's made tremendous progress, thanks to generour donations from others, but the money is running out. A 'big fat raffle' offers you the chance to win some excellent prizes, and Steve the chance to continue to get better.