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  • Bees closing in on Pearce deal

    Barnet are reportedly close to agreeing a loan deal for Notts County defender Krystian Pearce. The 22-year-old made 31 appearances for the Magpies last season but has fallen down the pecking order at Meadow Lane and has yet to play this campaign.

  • Hamsptead Garden Suburb gets in a pickle

    Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society will be getting itself in a pickle on September 20. The society is holding a Suburb in a Pickle evening from 7.30pm at which there will wine, cheese and a blind tasting of pickles and preserves.

  • Former pupil holding school reunion

    A former pupil of an Edgware school is holding a reunion for everyone who attended the school before 1967. Marlene Napper, nee Nadler, is organising the event for former pupils of Edgware Secondary Modern School, in Spur Road, which is now the

  • 'It was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse'

    No matter what result last Saturday, it was inevitable Barnet boss Mark Robson would be judged against Martin Allen – the man many Bees fans wanted to take over at Underhill in the summer. Allen helped keep Barnet in the Football League last season

  • Barnet's youth gets a taste of celebrity with cooking lesson

    Young people from Barnet got a taste of celebrity when they enjoyed a cooking lesson with television presenter Ben Shephard yesterday. The 16 to 25-year-olds, from charity Kids Count, were shown how to prepare a shepherd’s pie as part of a national

  • Schrire takes Harp win

    More than 20 sailors took to the water at the Welsh Harp to compete in the annual Single Handed Sailing race. The event, held on Saturday, saw competitors from BTYC Sailsports, Seahorse Sailing Club, Wembley Sailing Club and the North Circular Sailing

  • Arsenal defender charged with dangerous driving in Mill Hill

    Arsenal defender Andre Santos has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly caught speeding in a £100,000 sports car in Mill Hill. The 29-year-old of Church Mount, Barnet, was charged yesterday after being arrested on Friday, August 17

  • Kidney patient hopes to represent GB in Transplant Games

    A kidney transplant patient hopes to represent Great Britain in the world Transplant Games after impressing coaches with his talent on the track. Edwin Yamoah, 26, from Colindale, took home silver medals in the 100m and 200m races at the British

  • Synagogue buzzing with excitement at arrival of beehive

    A Finchley synagogue is buzzing with excitement as it welcomes some new residents. The New North London Synagogue, at the Sternberg Centre in East End Road, has just installed a beehive in its grounds as part of the Jewish Community Centre for

  • Your chance to join an orchestra

    If you fancy tooting the flute or beating the drum, come along and play with Da Capo Concert Band at their open rehearsal this Sunday. Da Capo is a friendly, experienced community wind orchestra made up of woodwind, brass and percussion players

  • It's only rock n roll - but we like it

    All Right Now is a cracking show featuring the finest collection of songs from the greatest era of rock music, performed by a group of musicians that has worked with some of the greatest names in the business. Vocalist Johnny Warman has worked

  • The tree of life

    If you like your dance theatre funny, thought-provoking and washed down with mugs of cider, then Tree is just what you’re after. A group of men lead us out beyond our window boxes to where the wilderness really lies, going deeper and deeper into

  • The best of rock comes to Potters Bar

    Join Gordon Marshall, drummer with The Moody Blues and special guest Peter Howarth, the current lead singer of The Hollies, at the Wyllyotts Theatre in Potters Bar for Reflections of a Rock n Roll Tour . Bringing you the music that defined a generation

  • EastEnders actor stars in a black comedy feature film

    Most of us know him as Heather’s boyfriend Andrew Cotton in EastEnders , that bastion of moodiness and bleak storylines, so it might come of something of a surprise to learn that actor Ricky Grover actually started out in comedy. Now the High

  • Edgware traders welcome parking review

    Traders in Edgware are gearing up to tell Barnet Council that Pay-by-Phone parking should be replaced by a return to the old pay and display system. On Tuesday the council announced that as part of their Town Centre and Shopping Parade Parking

  • Military cartoons find the humour in war

    Five exhausted British soldiers sit slumped in a corner, drinking steaming hot chocolate from delicate china cups and looking mightily relieved. The caption beneath this cartoon, in French, reads: Victoria Chocolate. Infallible for healing wounds

  • Going on holiday can be murder

    As summer draws to a close, most of us are returning to work with cheery, sun-dappled memories of our recent holidays– the fun, the sightseeing, maybe the new friends we made round the pool or at the hotel bar. Most of us won’t, it’s fairly likely

  • Date confirmed for Orient clash

    Barnet’s Johnstone’s Paint Trophy second round clash against Leyton Orient will take place on Tuesday October 9. The match will kick off at 7pm at Brisbane Road with tickets priced at £10 for adults, £5 concessions and £1 for under-18s. The Bees

  • Labour lodges formal Coleman complaint

    A formal complaint about offensive remarks made by controversial Councillor Brian Coleman has been lodged by the leader of the opposition group. The Conservative politician described members of the public gallery as “sad, mad and a couple

  • Schoolchildren bring in Jewish New Year at care home

    Schoolchildren sounded a ram’s horn as they brought in the Jewish New Year with elderly people at a care home in Hendon yesterday. Pupils from the Independent Jewish Day School visited Jewish Care’s Clore Manor in Great North Way to mark Rosh Hashanah

  • Oster happy to help young Bees

    John Oster is happy to help the younger members of the Barnet squad in “any way he can” after the 33-year-old signed a one-year deal at Underhill. The midfielder brings a wealth of experience having previously played in the Premier League and last

  • Estate residents to give area a makeover

    People living in a housing estate in New Southgate are being asked help turn their neighbourhood into a place to be proud of. Residents of Coppies Grove Estate are being invited to take part in social landlord, Barnet Homes’, Love where you Live