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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
[from Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal] Tax rise fears after Icelandic banks crash nlnews@archant.co.uk 10 October 2008 MILLIONS of pounds of Haringey Council cash could be lost as a result of the Icelandic banking crisis, it has emerged. The council has around £37million of deposits in three Icelandic banks which folded this week - understood to be the biggest [...]
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
[from Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal] Threat to parks police gets big response nlnews@archant.co.uk 13 August 2008 MORE than 500 residents concerned about council plans to cut Haringey’s parks police force have contacted the Liberal Democrats, a councillor claims. The news comes as Labour-run Haringey Council announced consultation will begin on proposals to axe the parks constabulary and...
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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) | 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) | 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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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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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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West Ham Till I Die (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Mike Gapes is Labour MP for Ilford South. How did you become a Hammer? I grew up in Hainault on the Essex side of what later became Greater London. The nearest teams were Tottenham, Leyton Orient and West Ham. Until I was 8 in 1960 I supported both The Hammers and Spurs. That year I decided that [...]
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 30/12/2007
Norfolk Blogger (aka Nich Starling) has tagged me to do a 'meme' on my 8 wishes for 2008. Here goes: 1. For Ken Livingstone to be kicked out of Office by somebody , anybody ... 2. For Haringey Council to tell property developers Grainger to go run and jump (this would save Tottenham's historic Ward's Corner ) 3. For the Conservative Party in the European Parliament to stay with our friends in the...
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 02/12/2007
Hunter had a lovely day yesterday in Haringey. I started off my hosting a coffee morning for the White Hart Lane branch of Tottenham Conservatives . We raised £70 - and, as they say, every little helps... In the afternoon I attended a fete at St. Benet Fink's church and bought a wonderful glass fruit bowl and some Christmas cards, sold in aid of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children ....
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 23/11/2007
Hunter notes with sadness that Lucy Arnold, a former Labour councillor for Bowes ward, has passed away. I don't know if this was recent or not as no date was given in the Births, Marriages and Deaths page of the Tottenham Journal. She can't have been very old. Hunter sends his condolences to Ron Blanchard, her husband (also a former Haringey councillor) and to other members of her family at this sad...
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Hunter and Shooter (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
Hunter had the honour on Sunday of representing the Conservative Party at the wreath-laying ceremony in Tottenham. Here in Haringey, we have three ceremonies: in Hornsey (where we Conservatives were represented by the dashing Nicola Bates), the main Civic ceremony at Wood Green (represented by Eyvind Andresen) and the one here in Tottenham, which I always attend. Readers of this blog do not need a...
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A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
[from Tottenham Journal] Area ‘too vulnerable for new betting shop’ nlnews@archant.co.uk 07 November 2007 AN UPRISING by residents over an application for a betting shop in Green Lanes has forced Haringey Council into a historic decision under new gambling laws. Last Thursday the council rejected betting company Metrobet's application for a licence for a shop in Green Lanes in a [...]
