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  • Election 2010: Candidate profile Alison Moore

    AS part of our build-up to the General Election on May 6 the Times Series is featuring a candidate profile for each of the main candidates in the three constituencies in Barnet. Today we focus on Alison Moore, the Labour candidate for the Finchley

  • Armoured police called to restrain knife wielding man

    A CRAZED knife wielding man charged police who were attending to reports glass bottles were being hurled into a communal area in Colindale yesterday. Officers were called to Jackdaw Court at about 1.30pm after receiving calls about a man throwing

  • Salon staff raise £25k for children's hospital

    SALON staff helped raise more than £25,000 for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity during a day of fundraising on Sunday. Dozens of hairdressers, stylists and apprentices from the North London based Hob Salons joined the nationwide HAIRraising

  • Now Harrison and Stein leave Barnet

    First-team coach Lee Harrison and physio Mark Stein have followed boss Ian Hendon out of the door at Barnet. Hendon was sacked on Wednesday and caretaker boss Paul Fairclough has decided he wants a fresh start ahead of the Bees' final two games. It

  • Cerebral palsy charity raises £30,000 from London Marathon

    A CENTRE for children with cerebral palsy has raised more than £30,000 after running the London Marathon last Sunday. A team of 14 runners from the Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy, in East End Road, East Finchley, took on the challenge

  • Schoolboy wins international horse riding competition

    A YOUNG horse rider from Mill Hill is celebrating his win as junior champion at an international tournament in Belgium. Michael Murphy, 13, went to Moorsele, in Belgium, two weeks ago with his trainer Sarah Healing and his mother Sue Murphy

  • Art is a question of time

    Time experienced, embodied and pictured is the theme of Lisa Milroy’s exhibition Time and Time Again, currently on display at Finchley’s artsdepot. The work spans ten years of the still life artist’s work, in which she has taken inspiration from everyday

  • Fighting in the skies

    THE contribution of “The Few”, those pilots of the RAF who took part in the Battle of Britain, has been well documented. Yet it is important with each passing year to re-tell the story of their courage in the face of overwhelming odds, as well as the

  • Polish poetic art

    Polish artist and poet Marzena Kasprowicz will hold two exhibitions of her work. Marzena, originally from the city of Kielce but now living in London, has had four books published in her home country. They place her art together with her poetry, the

  • Zionist dream set in the 19th Century

    DISTILLING an 800-page novel, including many chapters on Jewish history, into manageable portions are among the challenges facing those adapting George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda for the stage. John Cooper took on the task of turning the work into a version

  • Haul of illegal drugs was destined for classrooms

    A TIP-OFF by a teenage girl led police to smash a drugs company that was trying to hook school children on to newly banned substance. A £50,000 stockpile of Mephedrone, also known on the street as miaow miaow, was discovered in Muswell Hill

  • 300 up for Hendon's Burgess

    Hendon FC's James Burgess made his 300th appearance for the Greens against AFC Hornchurch on the final day of the season on Saturday. He became the first Hendon player since Simon Clarke (1995-2002) to reach the landmark. The long-serving defender