A horticulture expert has won the chance to help award-winning garden designer Adam Frost at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Seamus McCarthy, who works at Homebase in Hendon, has been selected out of 19,000 colleagues to create a garden, called
The owner of a rescue cat that was shot with an air rifle and badly injured in Finchley Central says he has been left "heartbroken". Richard Folkes found his black domestic shorthair, named Lady Guinevere, limping and holding up her right back
Tributes have been paid to a “brilliant grandfather” and restaurateur to the stars. Born in Cyprus, Christoforos Toumazis moved to England in 1952 where he set up La Primavera restaurant in North End Road, Golders Green, and Alamandra in Hornsey
Post Office workers have planned a fourth round of strike action on one of the busiest days of the year as they continue their battle to protect jobs, pay and branch closures. The Communications Workers Union has organised walk-outs at all 373
Fifty children from four Barnet primary schools tried their hand at golf in an initiative aimed at keeping the legacy of the Olympics alive. Barnet’s Partnership for School Sport visited the Metro Golf Centre, next to Allianz Park in Mill Hill,
Barnet’s lead development coach Kenny Brown has left the club after his contract with the Bees came to an end. Brown joined Barnet last summer and his role entailed overseeing coaching across the Bees’ various sides, from the first team downwards
Suspended Tory councillor Brian Coleman is due to appear in court tomorrow accused of beating a woman in the street. The former Barnet mayor faces charges of assault by beating and driving without reasonable care during an altercation in North
They have often been dubbed, perhaps prematurely, Britain’s answer to the Williams sisters but Essence and Destinee Martins had the chance to show their skills at the Lawn Tennis Association’s National Talent ID Day. The twins were two of four
“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.“ Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is widely acknowledged as being one of the greatest comedies in the English language. Wonderful
This month sees the start of the summer season at the London Jewish Cultural Centre, which promises a season of top-quality performances and talks by renowned figures from the world of music. May begins with Sir Nicholas Hytner in conversation,
“I was a veteran fighter. That’s how I saw myself. But at the end of the day, Pumla, all that I really am is a veteran of lost ideologies. Once you realise that, you lose your innocence.“ A Human Being Died That Night is Nicholas Wright’s new play
Garden Suburb Theatre presents the stage adaptation of everybody’s favourite 1980s wartime comedy, ‘Allo ‘Allo! Rene and his wife Edith are trying to keep for themselves a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis, and hidden in a sausage in the cellar
Making sure the Paralympic legacy continues in 2013, tens of young people with disabilities were put through their paces in a sports day extravaganza yesterday. More than 130 energetic pupils from schools across the borough were invited to take
The four strands of the Tonic Choir, from Totteridge, Hatch End and Radlett, are coming together for a very special performance at the Chorus Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, which opens the Southbank Centre’s summer-long Festival of Neighbourhood
"Results such as the railways have achieved are only won by blood and sweat, and on behalf of the Nation I express gratitude to every railwayman who has participated in this great transport effort which is contributing so largely to final victory.”
Stanmore Cricket Club got their season underway with a 34-run victory against Buckingham Town in the first round of the ECB National Club Championship. Stanmore, who are in group 12 of the competition, batted first and made steady progress throughout
It will be non-league football for Barnet next season after the club’s relegation from the Football League. The Bees will begin life in their new stadium in the Conference. Inevitably changes will have to be made throughout the club. Head coach
He can be the engine of the midfield for Tottenham Hotspur when he is on his game but footballer Jake Livermore was spotted in a different sort of motor in Potters Bar this week. The Enfield-born Premier League star was snapped filling up his £120,000
Last Sunday will have left a lot of Saracens fans feeling quite deflated. For the second year in a row, our European hopes and dreams had been suffocated by one of the French giants. Any improvements from our account last season against Clermont
Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s Proms at St Jude’s Festival in June. The nine-day music and literary festival in Hampstead Garden Suburb will feature a line-up of renowned musicians including The Sixteen and author Kate Atkinson.
