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  • Karate kids become champions abroad

    Four youngsters from a club in North Finchley competed at the World Championships in Sweden last weekend. The students from Ashin-do Kai, based at David Lloyd Leisure, in High Road, returned home clutching a handful of gold, silver and bronze medals.

  • Bees set for pre-season training

    Barnet begin pre-season training on Monday. The squad met for the first time since the summer break this week, with players being given fitness tests. But the real work starts next week, with the first pre-season friendly, an away game at St Albans

  • Potters Bar provides new chief for Hertsmere

    A Potters Bar corporate director will take over the reigns at Hertsmere Borough Council. Donald Graham, currently a corporate director with Newport City Council, was chosen as the new chief executive after a vigorous selection process and will join the

  • Victorian hospital could be ‘squandered’ for homes

    Time is running out for a disused Victorian hospital in Colindale, with a developer launching plans for hundreds of new homes on the site next Friday. Colindale Hospital, in Colindale Avenue, will become home to up to 750 new properties as part of a

  • Pele gives me a lift

    My Signy Says column in the Barnet FC programme brought the disparaging remark from one supporter that I was a name dropper. Well, with names to drop like Sir Stanley Matthews, Sir Tom Finney, Sir Bobby Charlton,Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Geoff Hurst, Bobby

  • Boatman aims to cross Indian Ocean

    A man who plans to be the third person to row single-handed across the Indian Ocean is holding a charity rowathon in Potters Bar next week. Simon Prior, 28, will cover the distance of the Channel on a rowing machine outside Sainsbury's, in Darkes Lane

  • Ofsted gives Barnet schools top marks

    Nearly nine in ten Barnet schools are good or outstanding, according to Ofsted reports from the last year. From April 2007 to March 2008, 87 per cent of the 46 schools visited by inspectors were placed in one of the two top categories. This puts Barnet

  • Caroline is Finchley's new professional

    Finchley Golf Club have appointed Caroline Bradley as their new full-time professional. She will take up her appointment in November when David Brown retires after 38 years in the position at Nether Court. Caroline, 43, is no stranger to Finchley or

  • Campbell's Olympic advice for Harrier

    Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell insists Shaftesbury Barnet's Allan Scott should use his World Indoor Championship heartbreak as a source of inspiration as he continues in his bid to qualify for Beijing. The 25-year-old British number two looked