• A report revealed more than half the children in some parts of Barnet borough were living in poverty. Figures published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty exposed a huge disparity in wealth and revealed pockets of poverty where up to 64 per cent of children were from low-income families.
  • Barnet Football Club secured a victory after securing funding for a permanent training centre. National sports charity The Football Foundation pledged £1 million towards the first phase of the Prince Edward playing fields project. The development of the 44-acre site between Canons Park and Edgware, will provide two artificial pitches, six grass pitches and modern training facilities together with new changing rooms. Part funding had already been secured from Barclays Bank towards the £5 million project, along with a £750,000 contribution from Harrow Council.
  • A man was shot dead in a Golders Green flat after neighbours heard shouting and screaming.

    Armed police raided Caroline Court, in Highfield Road, following reports a shot had been fired. They found the body of Cima Sogojeva, 27.

  • Thirty elderly residents were left homeless after fire destroyed their sheltered housing at Garth House in Granville Road, Cricklewood.
  • Statistics showed crime aboard buses had risen nine per cent across the borough.