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  • Young sisters hit by lorry

    An air ambulance helicopter brought traffic to a halt in Hendon as it dramatically came to the rescue of two little girls who had run into the path of a lorry. The helicopter landed at the junction of Brent Street, Parson Lane and Finchley Lane, and

  • Hot jazz for a hot summer

    The summer would not be the summer in Mill Hill without live music. And revellers have not been let down this year, thanks to organisers of the Mill Hill Music Festival. Up-and-coming superstars, trips down memory lane and long-time festival friends

  • Romantics go Underground

    The Tube relationship. A flirtatious glance here, a half-smile there, and it's all over within three stops. He or she gets off at Kentish Town without even looking back as the train speeds away. It needn't have to end this way, at least according to

  • No shame in being average

    You may live near a Tube station, but in fact you are living in Middle England, writes SIR SYDNEY CHAPMAN, the Conservative MP for Chipping Barnet Earlier this month I passed a political milestone: 25 years as MP for Chipping Barnet. In my column

  • Football club move due for approval

    The controversial £10 million sale of Hendon FC's ground to housing developers will move a step closer tonight (May 20) if Barnet Council rubber-stamps the club's move to Copthall stadium. Just weeks after the council applied for permission to build

  • World's first stem cell bank

    The world's first ever embryonic stem cell bank opened just outside Potters Bar yesterday (May 19), but not without attracting some outspoken criticism that it is exploiting human life in the pursuit of profits. The UK Stem Cell Bank, based at the National