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  • MacDonald aims to put Rovers defeat to bed against Silkmen

    Barnet skipper Charlie MacDonald says having a four days after Tuesday’s defeat at Bristol Rovers is the best thing for the Bees, stating tiredness is in the mind. The striker was unable to prevent Barnet from slipping to a 2-1 defeat at The Memorial

  • RAF museum launches new exhibition

    A new exhibition aims to bring to life the story of air power during the First World War. The RAF Museum, in Grahame Park Way, Hendon, will open its First World War in the Air display to the public next Thursday. Based in the Claude Grahame

  • Parking bay sign was very unclear

    Barnet Borough Council is getting so desperate to make money from parking fines that it’s erecting signs no-one can understand, then fining people for disobeying them. Several visitors to the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley on Saturday, November

  • This is a wake-up call

    The residents of Barnet should write to their councillors and tell them that they will not vote for them if they support the closures of any of our libraries. Our cultural heritage must not be sold off and turned into blocks of flats. Once demolished

  • Council employees need protecting

    It is stated that “street cleaning and rubbish collection could be outsourced to save money” (‘Privatisation plan to keep streets tidy’, Times Series, November 20). However, no evidence to support this assertion is given. In May, a new council

  • Pushing people out of Barnet

    My partner and I are in our late 20s. We earn good salaries and our joint income is a respectable £60,000 per annum. I am a teacher and, therefore, a key worker, which the mayor says should get priority in these housing schemes. We currently rent

  • Will power company compensate shops?

    I regularly make purchases at the two shops mentioned in your article (‘Power cuts force businesses to close’, Times Series, November 13) – Boulangerie Joie De Vie café and the Natural Health Shop – and I am horrified that they and other businesses

  • Help needed tracing family history

    I wonder if any of your readers have any knowledge of what happened to 10 Park Rise, Finchley Road, Golders Green, where my late maternal grandmother lived in 1921. I am currently tracing my family history, in particular Madeline Helen Henrietta

  • Theatre students perform in the West End

    Theatre students got a taste of life in the West End as they took to the stage to perform a Michael Jackson medley. Pupils from Stagecoach Barnet, based in Cromer Road, New Barnet, performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Westminster last Sunday alongside

  • A little bit of Japan in Finchley

    The Art Nouveau and Japanese stylings of the famed Silver Studio textile design studios from the 1890s combine with scenes of modern-day North Finchley to create an enchanting new world, in an innovative new art project from the Hasler Gallery, Middlesex

  • Rich Hall vs the button-pushing squirrels

    Step away from the mobile phone. Put away the tablet. The acerbic comedian Rich Hall is about to come on stage, and he would like your undivided attention. The American-born comedian, who was raised in North Carolina, emphasises that what he is

  • Barnet FC to commemorate fan

    A football club will hold a minute’s applause to commemorate a loyal fan. Barnet FC fan Gareth Needham, affectionately known as Donny Gaz, died last week aged 32. He had followed the club since he was 15, regularly travelling hundreds of miles

  • Man rushed to hospital after car crash

    A man was rushed to hospital with a head injury after a car crash this morning. London Ambulance Service was called at 10.16am to Cricklewood Broadway, where a car had hit a pedestrian. They treated a man in his 20s for a head injury and he

  • Elizabethans beaten by league leaders

    Barnet Elizabethans' luck was out as they surrended the lead to lose 13-5 to Kilburn Cosmos in the Herts/Middlesex League One on Saturday. Despite dominating against the league leaders, the Elizabethans came away with nothing to show from their

  • Wigglesworth: England must look at the bigger picture

    Saracens scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth insists England had not felt the pressure of a five-match losing streak prior to Saturday’s 28-9 win over Samoa and believes the Red Rose aren’t far away from matching the world’s best. A pair of tries from

  • Firearms amnesty sees more than 220 weapons handed in

    More than 220 weapons were handed in during a firearms amnesty. Hertfordshire Constabulary’s firearms amnesty ran from Monday, November 10 to Friday, November 21. A total of 223 weapons, including 22 air rifles, 23 air pistols, 46 shotguns,

  • World chess champion to play pupils

    A world chess champion will play up to 15 children at the same time. The chess team from Akiva School, in East End Road, Finchley, will take on Garry Kasparov on Tuesday, December 9 at the JW3 community centre in Finchley Road. The event has