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  • "Monty Brother" and "Big Python"

    Hello. I SAID HELLO! Last week I was watching a rather amusing "Monty Python" sketch in which everyone's day was ruined because of a dirty fork - people were wailing, screaming, threatening - generally having a horrible time. I then switched over to E4

  • Cries from 'the wilderness' save ticket offices

    The Mayor of London has "listened to the voice of the suburbs" and scrapped plans to close the ticket offices at three Tube stations in the borough. The decision by Boris Johnson not to shut the booths at West Finchley, Totteridge & Whetstone and Mill

  • Barnet FC Community Fun Day

    Barnet's footballers will be hoping to get the better of their cricketing counterparts this month. The annual Barnet FC v Barnet Bs CC 20/20 cricket match will be the highlight of the Barnet FC Community Fun Day on July 13. The footballers came close

  • Time wasters: lax patients cost NHS £5m a year

    Patients from the borough of Barnet missed more than 50,000 hospital appointments last year, costing the NHS millions of pounds. Every day, around 150 people failed to turn up for appointments at clinics and for planned procedures between April 2007

  • Polling allegations to be investigated

    Problems at the polls during this year's London elections will be investigated as part of a review of the election process. The London Assembly's elections review committee will look into reasons why ballot papers arrived late to five polling stations

  • ‘War zone’ club has its licence revoked

    A club condemned for creating a "war zone" in North Finchley has been ordered to stop trading. The decision to revoke the licence of Embassy Lounge, in High Road, was delivered after a series of disruptive events at the bar. Councillor Hugh Rayner,

  • EBOG look to youth

    East Barnet Old Grammarians, an established amateur football club with several adult teams, both men and women, are looking to develop a youth section. EBOG would like to hear from existing youth sides who would be interested in integrating into the

  • Henlys Corner plans in doubt

    A "clear solution" to the traffic problems at Henlys Corner put forward four months ago has been thrown into question. Barnet Council this week condemned Transport for London's (TfL) £5 million plan for a signal-controlled crossing at the junction,