July (From Times Series)

July

1:48pm Wednesday 31st December 2008 in

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• Crime figures released showed hate crimes were reported in Barnet at a rate of five a day in 2007.

• The family of a woman killed in the 7/7 bombings in central London set up a children’s eye care centre in her honour, on the third anniversary of her death. Miriam Hyman, 32, from Holyoake Walk, Hampstead Garden Suburb, died in the Tavistock Square explosion.

• Many public services ground to a halt as hundreds of Barnet Council workers and teachers went on strike. A total of 723 teachers, librarians and social workers joined one of the biggest nationwide strikes over wages.

• The ill-gotten gains of a drug dealer became the prized possessions of an East Barnet youth centre. Barnet police donated a plasma television and a games console to Church Farm Youth Club after their previous owner was convicted of drug dealing.