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  • Players gagging to put on a good performance - Allen

    Martin Allen says he will pick his "best team" against Braintree Town on Monday with the players "gagging" to make amends for the 4-0 defeat by Halifax last Saturday. Defeat by Halifax at The Hive all but ended the Bees' chances of making the top

  • Green Big Society - Wot?!

    One of the privileges of campaigning is that I get to knock on every door, one after another, and ask intrusive questions. I get to know things that perhaps neighbours don't. One of the most striking of these is coincidental strings of dwellings, sometimes

  • Do you remember the old Christ Church School?

    Former pupils of a school in Barnet can join in its 170th anniversary celebrations later this year. The original Christ Church School in St Albans Road was built by Captain John Trotter alongside a parsonage where services were held until Christ

  • The Tudor period - 'the most glorious soap opera'

    The divorcing and beheading of queens, the sinking of the Mary Rose, the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots, and plots, intrigue and killings galore – all these things marked out the Tudor period as what David Starkey has dubbed “the most glorious