Dear Editor, I was interested to read a reply from a constituent to my letter on electric vehicle charging points in last week’s edition of your paper. Mr Rutherford’s response asks me to “direct or incentivise councils to put two charging points at the base of every street lamp”. It is important to clarify here that, as a London Assembly […]
Read morePlease see here for a letter from Sadiq Khan on air quality in Barnet
Read moreWriting about Brexit to a deadline a few days ahead is risky, but to quote Tancredi in Tomasi di Lampedusa’s wonderful book ‘the Leopard’, “For things to remain the same, everything must change“- and this could be applied to Brexit: Parliament and Government in reversed roles, MPs’ votes ignored, fruitless negotiations in Downing Street and Brussels, a stubborn Prime Minister, timetable extensions- […]
Read moreDear Editor, I was pleased to see that the Committee on Climate Change has recently advised the Government that its proposed ban on the sale of diesel and petrol cars should be brought forward. Under current plans it will come into force by 2040, but the Committee says it should happen at least a decade sooner. This echoes the recommendations […]
Read moreDear Editor, This week marks the UN’s Global Road Safety Week, and it comes as a reminder that we all have a part to play when it comes to reducing the risks faced by pedestrians and all road users. The latest TfL data shows that in 2017 148 people were tragically killed or seriously injured on Barnet’s streets. The pain […]
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