Barnet’s council leader says he has “set his expectations quite low” for the borough, a new documentary film reveals. Tale of Two Barnets, by Charles Honderick, premiered at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, this evening. The 30-minute
Police were out and about in Potters Bar at the weekend giving vehicle crime prevention advice. The town’s safer neighbourhood team spent four hours at Tesco's car park, in Mutton Lane, helping more than 150 people to look after their cars
A student's painting is taking pride of place in Barnet Police Station. Klaudia Markowska's painting will hang in the station's victim suite. The student, from Totteridge Academy, won a competition organised by the SCD2 unit, which is responsible
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has congratulated a counsellor psychotherapist for helping improve community safety in Barnet. Barnet and Southgate College volunteer Shahin Nejad was presented with a Team London Award, which celebrates
News of a £40 million property entering the market in Hampstead Garden Suburb last week has been dwarfed by the emergence of a £100m mansion being sold in the same street. Heath Hall, in The Bishops Avenue, is a restored grade II-listed building
A man was arrested for attempted burglary yesterday, on his 42nd birthday. William Conarty should have been celebrating his birthday but, instead, was being arrested for the crime on Station Road, Edgware. Mr Conarty was charged this
A Mill Hill church paid tribute to a “tremendous” community leader who has helped raise cash for a children’s charity for more than 40 years. St Michael’s and All Angels Church in Flower Lane hosted its annual coffee morning on Saturday selling
A convicted murderer who battered a man to death in Finchley is on the run after he absconded from prison. Lester Jackson was jailed for life in 1991 for the murder of Hugh Paton during a botched mugging in August the previous year.
Barnet Council will provide an extra waste collection for Jewish people celebrating the festival of Passover. The special service will operate along 300 routes, making it easier for people to dispose of "chametz", or leavened products made
Television garden designer Joe Swift joined members of the Hendon Horticultural Society at an open event aimed at attracting new members. The Gardener’s World presenter was the flower show's special guest at Hendon Baptist Church, in Finchley
A Slimming World leader who lost 13 stone has run one of the toughest marathons in the world. Michael Drucker, 46, from Edgware, ran the Jerusalem marathon last Friday and raised £4,000 for SHALVA, the Association for Mentally and Physically
A mental illness charity has created a colourful mural to brighten up a children’s ward at the Royal Free Hospital. The artwork was created by service users and volunteers from Jewish Association for Mental Illness (JAMI) in Golders Green as
Wingate & Finchley continued their climb away from danger with a 3-1 home victory over Hastings United. The hosts took the lead in only the seventh minute after a composed opening to the game. Some patient build-up play on the halfway line started
Two Barnet charities have received grants to help offer advice and support for people with disabilities in the borough. The Barnet Centre for Independent Living (BCIL), which promotes the rights of disabled people, awarded the grants after
Barnet’s 2-0 defeat against Morecambe on Saturday epitomises the old football cliché - 'a game of two halves'. For the first 45 minutes the Bees were the better side. They created chances regularly, forced visiting keeper Barry Roche into a
The route that the Olympic torch will take around the UK was announced today. The route cuts a swathe through Barnet entering the borough from Brent at The Hyde. It will be carried along Herbert Road, Wilberforce Road and Station Road
A 19-year-old classical musician from Finchley has been chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer. Tyler Rix, who attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar, will carry the flame in Haringey on July 25. Mr Rix was selected as an inspirational
A persistent hoax 999 caller from Hendon has been jailed for wasting the time of the emergency services. Jennifer Neenan, of Belle Vue Estate, regularly telephoned the Metropolitan Police and the London Ambulance Service threatening to stab
Times and Independent series group editor Martin Buhagiar visited North London Hospice on Friday to draw the winning tickets for its grand raffle. More than 22,000 people entered with three prizes of £1,000, £250 and £100 up for grabs.
Pupils and staff from a Potters Bar school held two fun runs to raise cash that will help pay for children’s education in Zambia. Mount Grace School, in Church Road, raised about £1,000 through a 20-mile sponsored relay from Tottenham Marshes
A man is critically ill following a collision on the M1 on Friday. The 51-year-old from Watford lost control of his silver Toyota Rav4 and hit the central reservation on the northbound carriageway at junction six at approximately 10pm.
