London Mayor Boris Johnson is cutting the Metropolitan Police by 20% As you may have noticed this 20% cut has worked through to Barnet. Since the last general election our police numbers in Barnet have gone down dramatically: 01 May 2010 30 November 2012 30 November 2013 Police Officers 595.18 518.01 530.75 Sergeants 98.73 84.68 74.18 PCSOs 176.76 94.09 […]
Read moreDear editor, The problems you report at Barnet Hospital are all too common and are not acceptable. This is not the staff’s fault: when I visited the A and E last month to see the product of the recent investment, they were working hard, clearly very professional and committed to their work and their patients. The London Assembly Health Committee […]
Read moreDear editor, I must correct one point in Mr Deckett’s letter (14/2/14): Labour did not close Edgware Hospital’s A and E department. This was closed by the then Conservative Government in an act of spite on 1st April 1997, just a month before we won the General Election on 1st May that year. During that election campaign, Labour promised a review of what we […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour parliamentary candidate for Hendon has questioned the record of local Conservative MPs on the vote to ban smoking in cars in which children are travelling as passengers. Mr Dismore said: “This is a really important advance to help preserve children’s health and to encourage them not to smoke themselves, when they get older. It is a shame that Chipping Barnet’s MP […]
Read moreThe site for the proposed golf club, for which new plans are imminently expected, has been badly flooded. The proposed golf clubhouse site is now under 4ft of water. The Silkstream flood relief scheme has worked. But as planned, by protecting the properties downstream in Edgware by using as water containment areas the farm land on which the golf course […]
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