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News, comment and features
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Winchmore String Orchestra's concert on 18th November will be in aid of Water Aid. Music has been chosen to reflect both the time of year and the time of day, but will range across the centuries and across Europe.
With the festive season approaching and the nights getting longer we have chosen two timely themes for our end-of-year concert: Christmas; and music with nocturnal associations. But the result is a remarkably varied programme, ranging from the Baroque period to 20th-century.......
Chase Farm hospital has paid nearly £2.5 million in rates over the past five years and faces an increase of £60,000 this financial yearChase Farm, Barnet and the North Middlesex hospitals, in common with NHS hospitals throughout the country, are facing increased business rates, while many private hospitals, classified as charities, have their business rates reduced by 80 per cent.
This seemingly anomalous situation was revealed by Enfield Over 50s Forum in their most.......
Talkies Community Cinema is five years old this month!
Talkies opened its doors for the first time on 23rd October 2012 at St Monica's Parish Centre in Cannon Hill to a sell out crowd of 40 people.
If you follow this website, you'll have read a lot about local wetlands schemes in our parks and green spaces, most notably the transformation of the land surrounding Firs Farm playing fields into Firs Farm Wetlands. There's another new wetlands to report on this week, but of a very different nature and different scale.
Walthamstow Wetlands isn't the kind of wetlands that involves slowing down a stream or small river in order to filter out impurities and reduce the risk of.......
Following a recent Supreme Court ruling on the wheelchair priority space on buses, Transport for London have released a new guide for drivers and will be hosting several Accessibility Bus Driver Forums, to which users of wheelchairs or mobility scooters are invited. The event on 14th December will be held at Palmers Green Bus Garage (off Green Lanes, just north of the North Circular Road).
Chris Horner and Jane Maggs of Southgate District Civic Trust are at the far left in this line up of Civic Voice 2017 award winners
For the second year running the national body Civic Voicehas presented its Civic Day Award to Southgate District Civic Trust (SDCT). The award is a recognition of "An Outstanding Contribution".
As last year, our local civic trust wasn't satisfied with a just organising a Civic Day - instead it was the driving force behind the Southgate Civic Week,.......
A recently published article by "Bus Driver U" describes what the author sees as serious safety failings in the way that bus services are regulated by TfL and run by bus operators. The article includes a link to another describing a campaign for safer bus operations in London launched by an American businessman who was the victim of near-fatal collision on Oxford Street.
The anonymous driver's article - Bus Driver Fatigue—A TfL-Contracted Killer on London’s Roads? - is.......
The third set of Quieter Neighbourhood proposals relates to the "Fernleigh Road" QN - the entire area bounded by Hoppers Road, Station Road, Green Lanes and Bourne Hill. Hoppers Road does not just form a boundary, but would itself be part of the QN. There would also be measures to reduce traffic in two roads to the north of Station Road.
The consultation is open until 12th November.
In contrast to the approach taken to the Wolves Lane and Connaught Gardens QNs, the proposals are clearly aimed.......
Like me, you may have been under the impression that the changed parliamentary arithmetic following this year's General Election had put paid to the plan to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600.
Well, it turns out that the Boundary Commission for England has been continuing to beaver away at redrawing constituency boundaries with the lower number of seats in mind. It has considered all the feedback it received after it published its initial proposals last year and made.......
If you’re looking for inspiration to update your winter wardrobe then look no further: The Nightingale Cancer Support Centre is fundraising in style with its Glitz and Glamour Fashion Show.
Fashion-lovers will be greeted with bubbly and canapes before being treated to a showcase of the latest trends in every-day and party wear for both men and women and all in aid of supporting cancer sufferers and their families.
The charity receives no outside funding and relies on events such as this.......