• A football team of celebrities and ex-Arsenal professionals helped a Mill Hill father raise funds for the Duchenne Muscular Distrophy charity, Action Duchenne. The former footballing stars took part in the fundraising match at Edgware Town FC, which was organised by Mark Silverman, whose three-year-old son Thomas was diagnosed with the progressive muscle-wasting disease in 2007.
  • Two schools in Barnet borough were warned by the Government they faced closure over poor exam results. The Ravenscroft School and Whitefield School were put on a hit list of 638 secondary schools across England where more than two-thirds of pupils were underachieving.
  • After two years fighting the council’s decision to remove two huge cat enclosures from his back garden, the last of a Mr Catt’s nine lives ran out and the bulldozers moved in. Mr Catt — who changed his name in 1996 and has the number plate CAT343X — was defiant about his feline obsessed £150,000 ‘Catassic Park’ but failed to win the fight.
  • Oriental City closed its doors on June 2, and was set to be replaced by a 28-storey block of luxury flats, school, and shops. Traders faced a three year wait before the new centre, in which they have been promised space, was due to open.