A COLLAPSED building forced firefighters to rescue four people from a house on Wednesday morning. The two adults and two children were led to safety from the back of the property in Dollis Avenue, Finchley, after a side extension buckled and crushed
A STATE-OF-THE-ART computer suite will be taken out of a Mill Hill primary school to make way for an extra class. Deansbrook Infant School, in Hale Drive, is one of five schools in the borough which will take on an extra reception class in
A PARTY to raise money for wounded war heroes will hit the streets of Hendon tomorrow. Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes will kick off festivities on the green behind the Claddagh Ring pub, in Church Road, at 12pm, before a host of performers
Barnet are to play Cambridge United in a pre-season friendly this coming Wednesday. The game will replace the scheduled match at Waltham Abbey, as the latter's pitch is not ready.
JOBS are under threat at two Allied Carpet stores in the borough after the company went into administration today. The stores are in Friern Barnet retail park and the Silk Bridge Retail Park off the Edgware Road in West Hendon. Accountancy
THE leader of Barnet Council has contracted swine flu. Conservative councillor Mike Freer, also the prospective parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, was diagnosed today. In a post on the social networking site Twitter
There are still some tickets available for Barnet's pre-season friendly with Arsenal tomorrow (kick off 3pm). The Underhill ticket office will remain open until 7.30pm this evening.
Wingate & Finchley have re-signed keeper Ed Thompson. Thompson left the Abrahams Stadium for Dagenham & Redbridge, but he struggled to hold down a regular first-team place, with ex-Wales international keeper Tony Roberts still a huge favourite at Victoria
Barnet Copthall's Yaron Ash travelled to Israel this week to take his place in the Great Britain swimming team at the Maccabiah Games. The Maccabiah Games is the third largest sporting event in the world, after the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games
A BARNET woman has been given a suspended jail sentence for spitting at and hitting two ticket inspectors on a bus. Sandra Rose, 39, of Simmons Way, was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years, at Hendon Magistrates' Court last
PARENTS have raised £10,000 for computer equipment at a Friern Barnet school. The money, handed over to Holly Park School this morning, will be spent on 32 laptops, two laptop trolleys and a new internet server. The parent/teacher association
WHEN Afghan pupil Hiward Yarkhil joined Whitefields School, he was disappointed to find his national flag missing from the collection. So a year later he was delighted when Barnet councillor Matthew Offord, cabinet member for engagement and
The rats are back. In June, I caught 12 passing through my garden in four break-back traps — three in one night. What you need are traps out where they run, baited and covered by a sloping piece of wood so that birds are not caught; a pair of marigold
Your article painted a depressing picture of the wrangling between the council and the owners over the future of our cherished stall market. The owners say they have spent £8,000 resurfacing the old site. I am perplexed why they have spent this
The article in last week’s paper about Barnet Market (‘Traders are “left in the dark” over future of street market’, July 9) only hints at the complexities of the case and, rather than enter into the war of words, we believe there needs to be a
I refer to the letter attacking me in a recent edition of the Times over my allowances (‘Dismore’s claims are shocking’, Your Views, June 25). Dealing firstly with “food” claims, nobody has subsidised my supermarket bills. The reason this was permitted
MORE than 160 residents have signed a petition backing the proposed conversion of a ground-floor flat into a synagogue. The flat in Hale Lane, Edgware, is already being used as a synagogue, despite being ordered to close, and Rabbi Godlewski has submitted
"RIDICULOUS" taxi bills amassed by Brian Coleman as part of his London Assembly duties have prompted calls for a complete overhaul of the authority's expenses system. Assembly Member Navin Shah, deputy chairman of the Audit Panel, yesterday
