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Londonist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Tottenham is a strange part of Greater London. World famous thanks to its football team, yet probably obscure to most people who don't live there. Local historian Christine Protz's new book reveals the history of a town that has always been on the periphery of London life. Tottenham's roots go back to Anglo-Saxon times, with evidence of habitation close to the old Roman Road that now rejoices in the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Agent for Hornsey Labour party who helped to gain the traditionally Tory seat My friend Gwen Dain, who has died aged 86, was one of that generation of women for whom neither government, in the form of concern for equal opportunities, nor society, via feminism, had much to offer and whose background conferred no privileges. Among her ancestors were the eponymous shepherds on Shepherd's Hill, which...
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bookfutures (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Listen! I met up with Crouch End Library's official social networker the_anke this morning for a fascinating discussion about possibilities for pop up unlibraries and such in my vicinity. Anke audio-booed us, starting with the famous Crouch End Dylan story. bookfutures
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Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I blogged a couple of days ago about the threat to A&E services at the Whittington Hospital . Local Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone has set up a petition to save A&E at the Whittington, which you can sign here . As Lynne has said: If an ambulance is called to your home in Hornsey & Wood Green, for many people, their closest A&E is at the Whittington Hospital. As a borough, we are already...
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Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Good news from my Muswell Hill Lib Dem colleagues - long overdue safety improvements are to be made to the car park behind Marks and Spencers in Muswell Hill Broadway. It may have taken eight years of campaigning by local Lib Dems and residents, but Haringey Council have now agreed that plans for improvemets will be drawn up soon. This is very welcome, as the car park is used by parents and young children...
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Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Here's my latest column for the Muswell Hill Flyer and Highgate Handbook: Finally I managed to get Transport for London (TfL), Haringey Primary Care Trust (part of the NHS) and me together in the same place to bang heads together about the need for better bus links to the new Community Health Centre on the old [...]
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Wellbeing Newsline: Greater London (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Public consultation will run until 29 January 2010 Edited by Kaarina Miles: London Councils are asking Londoners their views on how a capital–wide budget of up to £28 million should be spent. Currently around 360 voluntary groups receive funding from London Councils across 59 priority areas and include schemes giving disabled people the opportunity to play sport, helping women affected...
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Simply Knitting (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Yarn is taking over! We've even had a tip off from one of our 'cousins', Imagine FX magazine, to say that one of their number has been spotted wearing a crochet beard . Apparently, Matt Boyce (who draws comic strips for Imagine FX ) has suddenly gone clean shaven, and his partner, Sara Noble, isn't quite as taken with the change as he is so has crocheted him a replacement beard. We can't quite find...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Hornsey High Street of old Residents in the north London burg of Hornsey are hopping mad over some unpleasant comments made about their 'hood in the 2010 Not For Tourists guide. According to the book: "People who live here will probably say they live in Crouch End or Stroud Green, partly because it sounds better and partly because most people have no idea where Hornsey is. It's an area bullied...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
There were Halloween horror shows aplenty in the Premier League this weekend. But what did we learn, asks Dan Silver?Robbie Keane must have been on the Guinness when he said Spurs were ready to overtake Arsenal. Tottenham's defence was so bad at the Emirates that Haringey council are reportedly refusing to grant planning permission for their new stadium. Apparently a funfair once a year is fine, but...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
There were Halloween horror shows aplenty in the Premier League this weekend. But what did we learn, asks Dan Silver?Robbie Keane must have been on the Guinness when he said Spurs were ready to overtake Arsenal. Tottenham's defence was so bad at the Emirates that Haringey council are reportedly refusing to grant planning permission for their new stadium. Apparently a funfair once a year is fine, but...
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Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Here's my latest Ham & High column: A few days ago I met the new CEO of First Capital Connect, the train company which services much of Haringey. I talked to Jim Morgan in particular about the issues arising from their cut backs to ticket office opening hours at Hornsey, Bowes Park, Alexandra Palace and Harringay [...]
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Government grants totalling £113,000 were paid last year to the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which runs a nursery and a primary school in Tottenham, north London and a primary in Slough, Berkshire. The grants continued this year, although no figures are available. The foundation's lead trustee and "proprietor" of the Slough school is Yusra Hamilton, a leading member of Hizb ut-Tahrir...
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Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Finally I managed to get Transport for London (TfL), Haringey PCT and me together in the same place to discuss the need for local people to be able to access services at the new Community Health Centre at Hornsey Hospital. We have this wonderful new facility - which we all hope is going to be filled [...]
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Radical Blues (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Just a few weeks ago the bombastic Kit Malthouse proudly claimed that after Boris’ ill advised coup against Sir Ian Blair, he and the mayor now had their ‘hands on the tiller’ of the Metropolitan Police. It was a typically bullish statement from the London Assembly member and one of Boris’ innumerably deputy mayors. During his time as the Deputy Leader of Westminster Council...
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