Barnet, England News

A HEAD TEACHER working in Brent is one of a number of people in the area to be awarded in the Queen's birthday honours list.

Members of a Somali community centre burned down in a suspected racist attack have been granted the temporary use of a library.

Linda Edwards, who has been chief executive for learning disability The Larches since it was founded in 1995, was given the award in this year's Queen's Birthday honours.

Linda Edwards, who co-founded the Larches Community Charity, was given the same award for her services to children and young people.

Dexter and Sheila Adams, of Blackstones Court, Stamford, still have fond memories of their wedding day on June 20, 1953.

Barnet Borough Council has offered the Somali Bravanese community temporary accommodation in East Finchley Library after their centre in Coppetts Road in Muswell Hill was destroyed in an arson attack last Wednesday.

Three years later, though, and his government seems to be doing its utmost to delay imposing tough carbon reduction targets on the energy industry.

Plans to rename a road in Finchley after former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appear to have come to a dead end.

Finchley constituents could find themselves walking down Margaret Thatcher Road in future after an MP asked Barnet Council to rename a street after the former Prime Minister.

HARROW and Brent are among 15 London boroughs rated the lowest for premature deaths according to a new Public Health website.

That figure - 247 premature deaths for every 100,000 people in the borough - places it in the country's top third of local authority areas.

A police officer who was instrumental in bringing down a "millionaire mugging ring" and the officers who caught people suspected of raiding phone shops were among those commended for their bravery.

People in Barnet are urged to gather together to raise money for a lasting tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne, in a campaign backed by the Times Series.

Surrey sent almost as many young people to the two universities last year as Wales and north-east combined, data shows Undergraduate places at Cambridge and Oxford universities remain dominated by students from London and the south-east of England, according to data released to the Guardian, highlighting the country's wide gaps in educational ... (more)

BEXLEY and Bromley are among the top five boroughs in London for the proportion of residents who are unpaid carers, according to a new report.

The Minister for Security at the Home Office visited the site of the Somali community centre gutted by fire on Wednesday to hear the concerns of the community first hand.

Staff at a Barnet children's hospice have been left upset and shaken by a break-in at one of their charity shops on Wednesday night.

More than 200 people from all parts of London held a vigil last night to show solidarity with Barnet's Somali community.

Barnet's Diamond Jubilee Committee will be launching a fundraising initiative to install a lasting tribute to the Queen at the civic heart of Barnet.

He attacked the woman as she filmed him parking illegally in a loading bay on a street where he had helped to introduce unpopular charges.