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Youngsters sought to keep Barnet clean
Young volunteers are being sought to help clean up a Barnet estate as part of an annual initiative aimed at improving the community and its surroundings. Organised by Barnet Homes, Burnt Oak Christian Fellowship and the Burnt Oak Safer Neighbourhood
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Your chance for change in North West London
With just over a week to go until the election, I am out every day pounding the pavements, listening to Londoners and telling them why they should vote for me. What I invariably say is this: that on 1st May they should forget all the over-analysis from
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Police hunt road smash driver
A driver who fled the scene of a road smash in Hendon which left a man seriously injured is being traced by police. The collision between a Blue Ford van, which may have been a Transit, a white Astra and a Yamaha motorbike happened around 5pm on Sunday
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Tragedy on the tracks
The latest show to visit the Millfield Arts Centre is inspired by the true story of a man pushed under a train. Miriam Craig talks to the co-director of a play that explores the responsibilities of both the artist and society. Is it right to take
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The sounds of silence
Phantom of the Opera, Phoenix Cinema, High Road, East Finchley, Sunday, 1.30pm A screening of the 1925 silent horror film about a mysterious, cloaked figure who lives in the deep recesses of the Paris Opera House will have live accompaniment from
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They will make you laugh, fair and square
Comedy at All Saints, All Saints Arts Centre, Oakleigh Road North, Whetstone, Sunday, 8.30pm This comedy night is run by Just Fair Laughs, a comedy agency that supports fairtrade and donates a portion of all profits to anti-injustice charity Speak
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Next up for Bees - Stockport County
BARNET vs Stockport County . . . Coca-Cola League Two. Underhill. Saturday, 3pm. ANALYSIS. Though Barnet only have pride to play for, the Hatters are gunning for automatic promotion. Jim Gannon's side have already booked a place in the play-offs
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Immigrant test could cause chef shortage
New laws to toughen up on migrant workers will leave Barnet's Chinese restaurants with a lack of chefs, according to a restaurateur. A points system introduced by the Government in February requires would-be workers from countries outside the EU to fulfil
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Teachers' strike closes 30 schools
Nearly three-quarters of Barnet's schools were due to close or partially close today because of teachers striking over below-inflation pay increases. Seventy-five of the borough's 106 state schools are affected by the National Union of Teachers (NUT)
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Clean green agenda for GLA candidates
Three of the four top candidates for the Barnet and Camden seat in the London Assembly have been pushing their green credentials this week. At a question and answer session in Camden on Tuesday, organised by Friends of the Earth, candidates told a small
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All care, but no support
Tim Simms asks me where I have been for the last decade (Sound of the suburbs', Times Letters, April 17). I have been in Barnet watching thousands of dwellings being built and only nine percent of them affordable. Twenty years ago I was one of the first
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Listen son, we need 384
Regarding the 384 bus: in answer to my son's letter (Route is wide of the mark', Times Letters, April 10) I keep reminding him that he will be old one day and not able to drive. The bus is essential to my husband and myself for hospital and doctor appointments
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No room for BNP in Hale
Thank you for your well- balanced summary in last week's Times of the policies I am campaigning on as the Green Party contender in the Hale Ward by-election (Hale candidates revealed', Times Series, April 10). I was surprised and sorry to read the British
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Road revamp a bad move
I was surprised to see the loss of the mini-roundabouts at the junctions with Station Road and Lichfield Grove along Squires Lane, Finchley, after last week's road resurfacing. Mini-roundabouts were brought in for a reason, to slow traffic and give equal
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Society springs into show
Finchley Art Society Spring Exhibition, Trinity Church Centre, Nether Street, North Finchley, Saturday until May 11, 9am to 6pm, 2pm to 6pm on Sunday Finchley Art Society has been meeting since 1949, bringing together people interested in art, from
