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The British Lung Foundation is asking members of the public to send emails to candidates for the Mayor of London and London Assembly Members requesting that they sign up to the Foundation's Manifesto for Better Lung Health in London.
The Foundation's website has a pre-written email for people to send, with or without their own edits. The pre-written text reads as follows:
I’m writing to you as a candidate in the upcoming London elections to ask you to protect London's lungs........
A very short trailer for a very short film that should whet your appetite for the evening of specially commissioned short flims that ends this year's Here Suburban Film Festival.
27th April at the Fox - see details........
The Broomfield House Trust will holding its Annual General Meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 5th April.
The venue is the Beatrice Newton Room at the Fox Lane United Reformed Church complex. Entrance is via the Burford Centre entrance in Burford Gardens.
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Much has happened in the past year with regard to the future of this historical property, so there will a lot to discuss - but the meeting can only last two.......
North London Samaritans are looking for a new voluntary Treasurer - someone with an accountancy background.
The role will cover producing Annual Accounts, Noms claims, preparing the Annual report, making Gift Aid claims, doing any Corporation tax returns, renewing the insurance policy annually, preparing management accounts, and supporting the book keeper.
The treasurer will be a support volunteer, so not involved in directly supporting callers, and will be a trustee of the charity,
If you.......
Storm Katie arrived in London on Sunday night/Monday morning and did a fair amount of damage. On the Friends of Broomfield Park Facebook page Tomas Adomaitis has posted photographs of the effect on the recently planted lime trees in Broomfield Park. Obviously, it doesn't compare to a pub having its roof ripped off (elsewhere in London), but it's a pity. Hopefully, the Council will be able to fix the ten or so trees that were.......
Few things could be more indicative of the revival of a recently run-down and moribund suburban high street than the opening of a smart new shop selling pianos costing up to £35,000 and providing a Music Academy to help plug the gaps in musical tuition in the present-day English school system. So when Paul Handley moved his piano shop from Alexandra Park Road to Bowes Park's Myddleton Road last year, he chose the most appropriate name: Renaissance.
Renaissance Men: Paul and.......
The Pinkham Way Alliance (PWA) has published the text of its detailed submission to Haringey Council in response to the public consultation on Haringey Local Plan documents. Its representations are aimed at preventing development of open land which was once the site of the Friern Barnet Sewage Works site at Pinkham Way, adjacent to the North Circular Road and Muswell Hill Golf Course.
In its draft planning documents Haringey is designating the land both as a Site of Importance for Nature.......
Redevelopment plans at Chase Farm Hospital receive final approval
The following report was posted on the Healthwatch Enfield website on 24 March 2016.
The redevelopment of Chase Farm Hospital has received the final go-ahead. The finalised plans were approved by Enfield Council in January, and have now been approved by the government, which is the final stage of the approval process.
Government approval of the full business case means public funds can now be released; in total the government.......
Well, not exactly "here", but only just down the road, in Bounds Green, and part of the 2016 Here Suburban Film Festival, brought to you by Talkies Community Cinema.
Why "Men in Shorts"? Because there will be six short films about men. all introduced by their writers or directors or one of the actors (also men).
MEN IN SHORTS
a wealth of local talent on screen
FRIDAY 8 APRIL 7.30BOUNDS GREEN BOWLS & TENNIS CLUBoff Goring Road N11 2DD Show Map
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The body that represents public transport users in London is to ask the operator of Great Northern and Thameslink rail services to reconsider its proposed changes to ticket offices, including those at Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill.
The Board of London Travelwatch met on 22nd March to consider Govia Thameslink Railway's proposals, along with a report prepared by the London TravelWatch Secretariat and some 8,000 responses to the consultation from various organisations and individuals, plus.......
As of Tuesday 29th March there will be a new regular bus service connecting Cockfosters Station with Luton, via Potters Bar, Hatfield, Wheathampstead and Dunstable.
The new connections come about as the result of changes to an existing bus route, the 610, run by UNO, a company set up primarily to serve the University of Hertfordshire, but whose services are available to everyone.
As previously, a few peak hour buses will operate to and from Enfield Town, but they will now be routed via.......
Easter Sunday is the last Sunday in March and therefore the last chance to see this month's Spirals of Life sculptures in Broomfield Conservatory before they give way to the April exhibits.
The March exhibits are sculptures of lilies and ferns created by Cathy Taylor and June Dawes.
Cathy writes:
"Ferns first caught my eye in the beautiful La Mortella Gardens in Ischia, Italy, where the fronds of giant tree ferns interlaced against the sky. Tree ferns are a very old form of life, familiar.......