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Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
News from Sustainable Haringey has hit my inbox of a launch day for a food co-op in Tottenham - on Saturday July 19th. Thought I'd stick the email up here so anyone with an interest has all the details. Hope the launch goes well and the scheme will provide more choice for people who want to buy locally produced food at affordable prices. If you want to know more, then please do contact them on the...
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
[from Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal] Art gallery goes down the pan nlnews@archant.co.uk 02 July 2008 HOMELESS: Shiri Shalmy has had to move out of gallery:space AN ART gallery created in an old toilet block in Finsbury Park has been left homeless after Haringey Council pulled the plug on the lease, its boss claims. Fine arts graduate Shiri Shalmy, [...]
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Go to St Ann’s Hospital to celebrate its Lordship Ward becoming the 300 th ward of the national ‘Star Wards’ project. David Lammy (MP for Tottenham ) is on the visit too. We start by meeting Marion Janner . Marion is a service user from Haringey and is a vocal campaigner and mover on the Star Wards project. This is a national project started to begin to address one of the great challenges of mental...
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Cllr. Ali Demirci is the latest councillor to cross the floor on Haringey Council from the Dim Lebs to Labour. Why? Because the Lib Dems don't have anything positive to offer the people of Haringey. At the recent elections, they lost two out of the three contests in Hornsey and Wood Green and, worse still, were a poor fourth in Tottenham - behind the Greens. The Conservatives locally and nationally...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Rats have taken over Muswell Hill. And we're not just talking about the clowns from Haringey Council who dumped those confidential documents a few months back. No, these are the genuine deal, the scurrying little beggars themselves, all brown of fur and sharp of claw. Residents in N10 have spotted sewer rats (species: Rattus evillus ) ambling along Dukes Avenue and the Broadway, putting fear and terror...
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Keith Flett kindly wrote in the local newspaper about my push to get Oyster more widely accepted on train services: Full marks to Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, for raising the issue of pay as you go Oyster Card use on rail networks in Haringey. At the moment they can't be used on the line from Finsbury Park through to Hornsey and beyond, although the train operator First Group...
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
Just as the Fib Dems gather to celebrate 10 years of 'success' here in Haringey, new figures published in the last twenty-four hours have revealed the Lib Dems slumped into THIRD and FOURTH place in Tottenham (Hunter's home turf) in the May 1 London elections. Electoral bigwigs have released the votes for London Mayor, GLA Constituency Member and London Top-Up List broken out by local authority ward....
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
[from Muswell Hill Journal] Action over land grabs nlnews@archant.co.uk 01 May 2008 OWNERS of a Muswell Hill house that allegedly had its back garden extended onto a nature reserve have been forced to remove a fence on the contested site. This comes as Haringey Council announced a crackdown on illegal movement onto council land - known as encroachment - with [...]
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MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
Police and enforcement officers in Haringey have succeeded in closing down an illegal auction selling poor quality goods in Wood Green Town Centre.
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
[from Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal] Bookmakers win licence appeal bid nlnews@archant.co.uk 09 April 2008 RESIDENTS fear that more betting shops will open in Green Lanes after a decision by Haringey Council to refuse a gambling licence was overturned at appeal. Bookmaker Metrobet has won an appeal against Haringey Council after its decision to reject a premises betting licence [...]
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
[from Hornsey and Crouch End Journal] Bid to end traffic woe at retail park nlnews@archant.co.uk 09 April 2008 AN EMERGENCY summit has come up with fresh ideas to end traffic gridlock blighting Arena Retail Park in Green Lanes. Haringey Council called a meeting with park owners Wildmoor Properties and Sainsbury’s representatives in a bid to ease problems of traffic getting [...]
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
Bad news for Haringey residents: a crime survey this week revealed that three of London's four worst burglary hotspots are in the borough. Figures for 2007 show that, despite a borough-wide reduction in crime, parts of Haringey are ridden by burglary. Tottenham Green, St Ann's and Harringay are the spots to avoid if you're partial to your possessions. A one percent year on year increase in home burglaries...
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London Tour (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
London Borough of Haringey Address : Civic Centre High Road Wood Green N22 8LE Telephone: 020 8489 0000 Website : www.haringey.gov.uk
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 13/02/2008
[from Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton journal] Parking controls will kill us off, say traders nlnews@archant.co.uk 13 February 2008 A WAVE of new parking restrictions in Haringey have been met by mixed reactions from residents and traders. The controlled parking zones cover Bounds Green, Wood Green and Green Lanes and are set to start at the end of March. While [...]
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
[from This Is Local London] Taking it slow in the suburbs By Caron Kemp The first 20mph speed limit in the borough was introduced in Wood Green in 2001. Since then, the same limit has been rolled out or proposed in 29 areas of Haringey, making it a contender to become the first London borough with a blanket [...]
