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  • College principal welcomes GCSE results

    The principal of a college said she was ‘deeply impressed’ with her students' GCSE results. Pupils at Haringey, Enfield and North East London College trembled with joy as they received their GCSE grades. The college saw 92 per cent of its English

  • Film enthusiast gets insight in Disney movie

    A film enthusiast was given the chance of a lifetime as he interviewed the director and producer of a new Disney film. Nathan Devonish, of Galliard Primary School, in Galliard Road, Edmonton, was able to pick the brains of Disney’s Planes 2 director

  • It is the victims of war who deserve the honour

    I hope your report that the start of the Great War was honoured in Palmers Green was a mistake. The war, which pitted millions of decent people who had no quarrels with their neighbours in murderous conflict with each other deserves no honour,

  • Drivers are not superior beings

    So letter writer Arif Beyzade (‘Take a deep breath and start again’, Opinion, August 13) thinks that the Labour council is responsible for the Mini-Holland bid. Wrong. The money was provided by a Conservative government, allocated by a Conservative

  • Drivers do not own the roads

    I was sorry to read that Rick Jewell still pays road tax (‘Motorist win hands down’, Opinion, August 13), despite it being abolished in 1937. Looking at some of his other understandings, it is worth highlighting that roads are public spaces, in

  • Why have meetings being cancelled?

    I have attended and contributed to discussions at the Haselbury and Upper Edmonton forum for many years but to my surprise, these meeting have been shelved. I have great respect for my local council officers and the elected representatives who

  • Age UK does what is best for each person

    I’m writing in response to the letter regarding our hearing clinics (‘Assisting in the demise of our NHS’, Opinion, August 6). On behalf of Age UK I would like to reassure E D Ellis, as well as your readers and local residents, that the hearing

  • We appear to be easy pickings for thieves

    I have lived in Palmers Green since 1986 and not long after had two ornamental ironwork planters to adorn the garden with overhanging fuchsias. I had not used them for several years now but they have always been in the front garden until such time

  • Tap star celebrates double triumph

     A young tap sensation has wrapped up a glorious year with the news that he will perform solo at the Royal Albert Hall. When Carmela Lowary was told by a fellow mother at Morgan Aslanoff theatre, in Winchmore Hill, to take her son Luke to the national

  • Festival aims to 'unite the community'

    The Palmers Green Festival is aiming to be bigger than ever this year in a bid to ‘unite the community.’ The third annual festival will return to Broomfield Park on Sunday, September 7. Thousands joined in the fun last year and this year the

  • Wife wants answers over lack of home care

      A woman is demanding answers after her husband was left severely ill following an operation. Alexander Carydice went into hospital in 2007 after waking up with a headache. After being operated on to install a shunt to drain fluid in his body