Barnet Borough Council has been told to create an extra polling station amid fears poorer people could be prevented from voting. The Electoral Commission wrote to the authority directing it to create a polling station at Annunciation Catholic School
A public meeting will take place to discuss how to prevent crime in Barnet. Barnet Borough Watch will hold the meeting on Wednesday, April 8 at 7pm at the Metropolitan Police's Simpson Hall, in Aerodrome Road, Colindale. Chief Superintendent
Conservation experts have withdrawn their objections into a golf course – but still have concerns over the pollution it could cause. Green belt land at Bury Farm, in Edgwarebury Lane, Edgware, could be turned into an 18-hole golf course if plans
A former psychiatric nurse is standing as an Independent candidate in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. Roger Enskat, of Orchard Avenue, Finchley, who has lived in Finchley Church End for more than 30 years, will be up for election on May
A prolific sex offender has been jailed for two years after DNA checks linked him to an assault on a 15-year-old boy on a crowded tube train. Chun Man Ho, 37, of Elmer Gardens, Edgware, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court last Friday after
UKIP has selected a new candidate to stand in Hendon following the resignation of its previous candidate. Raymond Shamash, an NHS oral surgeon in Northamptonshire, will contest the seat for the Eurosceptic party on May 7. Dr Shamash was raised
Gang members who carried out a “callous and premeditated” attack on teenage boys lured to a fake drug deal have been jailed. Two 16-year-olds were stabbed and a third was robbed after the incident in Watling Park, Burnt Oak, on the evening of
The Times Series welcomes a new editor this week. Tim Jones, previously the group editor for Newsquest's East London & West Essex titles, has now taken on the role of group editor for all titles across Newsquest North London, including the
Two sisters raised more than £500 for charity between them by taking part in a 40-mile bike ride. Connie Dickie, who works at UK Power Networks in Potters Bar, and her sister Emily completed the London to Reading bike ride on Sunday for the British
