A green-fingered councillor is calling on Enfield to get behind a borough-wide scheme on World Food Day. Cllr Alan Sitkin, Enfield Borough Council’s cabinet member for economic development, sampled produce from Forty Hall Farm to celebrate the
I was very surprised to read that in a recent survey North Middlesex Hospital did not receive the commendation for cancer care that I believe it deserves. Having been diagnosed with prostate cancer five years ago, I attended the hospital every
I support wholeheartedly Enfield Borough Council’s lobbying of the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to keep 25 extra police officers in the borough (‘Calls made to keep extra officers’, Enfield Independent, October 8). Their work in helping to reduce
The disabled car parking spaces outside of the café at Forty Hall, Enfield, have been done away with and replaced by a row of cycle racks. Parking facilities for disabled people are now located in the car park by the entrance and you now have to
I have received a questionnaire entitled ‘Quieter Neighbourhoods Wolves Lane Area’. The object of the exercise is to stop so-called ‘rat-running’ through the area. To achieve this, it will be necessary to impose road restrictions on traffic movement
Camlet Way and Beech Hill are supposed to be 30mph and people are tearing along at about 100mph. Why are drivers, including cyclists, not taking more care? Jeremy Platten Newmans Way, Hadley Wood
I was very sorry to hear from Paul Mandel’s letter (‘Residents’ voices were heard’, Opinion, October 1) that at a meeting of the Fox Lane Residents’ Association I created the impression that I am anti-car. That is certainly not the case. My position
Although there is a short-term objection to Minchenden being used for special needs rather than as a temporary primary school, the Grovelands Residents’ Association’s main concern is longer term. If another primary is to be built in the area, we
A play in two distinct but interlocking halves which run in reverse order, Warde Street, looks at different aspects of the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings. It starts in Samiya's (Avita Jay) flat as she clashes with her lover David (writer Damien
A councillor charged with assault will have to wait until the new year before his trial begins. Enfield borough councillor Haydar Ulus is accused of assaulting a man occasioning actual bodily harm during an incident on February 20, 2014.
A new operation has been launched to reduce the number of violent crimes in the area. Enfield Police has launched Operation Equinox, in which boroughs across London will join forces until next year to crack down on violence. In Enfield there
A graduate who completed her degree despite becoming a mother during the first year of her course is now helping people tell their life stories. Natasha Collins graduated from Middlesex University, in The Burroughs, Hendon, this year with an MA
House prices in Enfield are set to rise by 39 per cent in the next five years, figures have revealed. According to property website Rightmove and economic forecaster Oxford Economics, the borough has the fifth fastest growth in the whole of England
A councillor will appear in court charged with assault today. Cllr Haydar Ulus, who represents Haselbury ward on Enfield Borough Council, will appear at Wood Green Crown Court for this first time. He is accused of an attack on February 20 this
