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  • Barnet 3 Grimsby Town 3

    Barnet are still looking for their first win under new boss Ian Hendon after throwing away the lead on two occasions in a pulsating encounter at Underhill this evening. The Bees struck twice through Yanick Bolasie and Paul Furlong in the space of two

  • Friern Barnet man jailed for drug smuggling

    A newspaper delivery driver from Friern Barnet has been jailed for attempting to smuggle an estimated one-and-a-half kilos of cocaine into the country. Krishen Kumar Bhantoo, 41, of Goldsmith Road, was sentenced to seven years at Croydon Crown

  • Potters Bar pensioner dies cleaning window

    A pensioner died after she accidentally fell while cleaning her kitchen window, a coroner confirmed. Mother-of-four, Anna Casali, of The Drive, Potters Bar, fell 4ft as she leant out of her bungalow window on October 28 last year and suffered

  • "Extended bus route is short sighted"

    The decision to extend a bus route through the borough has been branded unnecessary and short sighted. The 263 route, which previously ran between Barnet Hospital and Archway, now runs as far as Holloway after it was fully introduced on Saturday

  • Former primary headteacher dies

    One of Finchley’s longest serving headteachers, who “fiercely resisted” the culture of dumbing-down in primary school education, passed away in December. John Hudson, who lived in West Sussex, died at the age of 88 on December 7. He

  • New hotel proposed for Whetstone

    Developers hope to build a 96-bedroom hotel on the site of a closed pub in Whetstone. The development, on the site of the Black Bull in High Road, will include a three floor Travelodge hotel above a new Halfords shop if it is granted planning

  • Wingate & Finchley v Aveley - match ON

    Tonight's Wingate & Finchley v Aveley match at the Abrahams Stadium will take place as scheduled. While many clubs have been forced to postpone matches because of the weather, the Blues have announced that their Ryman League Division One North clash

  • Supermarket to hold sample clothing sale for charity

    A supermarket chain is to hold a sample sale of its clothes next week, with all proceeds going to a cancer charity. Staff from Tesco’s head office will take part in a competition to raise as much money for Marie Curie Cancer Care as possible

  • Rare RAF pictures go on sale

    A collection of previously unpublished photographs from the RAF Museum’s archives have been released as prints to raise money for charity. TOMASZ JOHNSON finds out more about the man behind the lens. The recurring theme in Charles Brown’

  • Searching old friends

    I am trying to locate a family who lived in Burnt Oak area in 1956 on a council estate near what was then the Fridgadair factory. I was in the army with Philip Green, who was a sergeant in the Army Catering Corps. here were three children, one named