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Following the announcement earlier this year that primary school children in London will receive free school meals, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in partnership with the Mayor's Fund for London and the Felix Project, will be helping with emergency food provision during the school holidays.

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Residential burglaries and motor vehicle crime down, but it was by no means all roses at the first meeting of the new Palmers Green Ward Panel.

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Yasar Halim Supermarket and its owner have been fined a total of £74,000 for breaching hygiene, pest control and contamination regulations.

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From the start of April these impressive gates, that once guarded the underground toilets at the Triangle, will be opening to let in visitors to Broomfield Conservatory on Wednesdays as well as Sundays. To raise money for the upkeep of the plants, this Sunday (2nd April) there will be a plant sale outside the Conservatory.

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This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.

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Following the success of the winter market, the Palmers Green Action Team have announced dates for three more markets in Devonshire Square, starting with a Spring Market on 22nd April.

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It's nearly ten years since an abandoned toilet building in Broomfield Park reopened as a community cafe. Since then the Palmers Greenery has been providing nutritious and ethical food and drink to visitors to the park. But the Greenery has been much more than just a friendly cafe. It's been using its profits to pay for projects all round the park, it's been helping kids from West Lea school learn invaluable life skills and much more.

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I make no excuse for featuring a story which isn't 'local' to Palmers Green, to London or even to the UK. Because it is of course local to every spot on Earth where people live. Short films, one by David Attenborough, stress the urgency of drastic action.

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The Casey Review of the Met, commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman, doesn't pull its punches. Dame Louise Casey calls for a complete overhaul of a 'broken' organisation.

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The 'school street' in the vicinity of Hazelwood Schools comes into effect on Monday morning. The scheme will ban most drivers from the area close to the school during pupils' arrival and departure times.

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In the face of unprecedented demand, Cooking Champions have introduced new procedures for their food bank and are appealing for more volunteers and donations.

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On Saturday 11th March tens of thousands of people - NHS staff and concerned patients and public - amassed outside University College Hospital at the start of a nationwide demonstration under the slogan SOS NHS!. Members of local campaign group Defend Enfield NHS were pleased and proud to be in the thick of it as protesters went on to march through central London to Downing Street.

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