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  • Council set to invest £16million to redevelop services

    Council chiefs have agreed this evening to invest £16million over three years on redeveloping customer services. Cabinet members will invest the total as part of the Enfield 2017 scheme that will aim to generate ongoing savings of £29million per

  • Pair caught on CCTV following burglary

    A pair of burglars who drove off in a family’s BMW may have been caught on CCTV. The footage reveals two men walking from Park Road, onto Chestnut Road in Enfield Freezy Water. A black man wearing a sleeveless puffa jacket and tracksuit bottoms

  • Decision on unlocked parks delayed until April 2015

    The decision to keep all of Enfield’s parks unlocked has been delayed until next year. Enfield Council had previously agreed to keep all of the borough’s parks unlocked to the public in a bid to cut costs. However, the decision has been put

  • Parties should be ashamed of poverty statistics

    The news from the End Child Poverty campaign that almost half of the children in Edmonton are living in poverty should be a source of shame to all the parties of government. David Holmes, chairman of the End Child Poverty Campaign, has challenged

  • Good for football and good for fans

    I was delighted to see that Enfield Town FC’s supporters’ organisation had helped the Labour Party to draw up its new plans to give fans a voice in every football boardroom. Enfield Town has always been a trailblazer for supporters’ rights. It

  • Stop making cuts to hurt the poor

    Somewhat to my horror, I heard Chancellor of the Exchequer MP George Osbourne’s announcement for further cuts (£25billion) and more hurt for the poor. In Enfield, a Labour-run council, which was re-elected again last May, has and will continue

  • Criticising the car is anti-car to me

    Mr Hughes’ attitude towards motoring is evident (‘Good servant but bad masters’, Opinion, October 15). In his own words, he said: “Current attitudes to travel on urban roads are a mindset created by a century of putting cars first. It’s a mindset that

  • Leaving park gates open is an awful idea

    I couldn’t believe it when I read park gates could be left unlocked all night. Are they living in the 1940s/1950s, when people could be trusted not to steal and leave their rubbish or smash seats and statues? As a member of Friends of Bury Lodge Park

  • Fears grow for missing teen

    Concerns are growing for the welfare of a teenage girl who has been missing for almost a week. Charlotte Cummings, 15, was last seen by her family at their home, in Enfield Lock, on October 24. The 15-year-old is described as white, of slim

  • Bereaved mothers re-launch parent support group

    A pair of bereaved mothers are set to re-launch a group to help parents after stillbirths. Elisha O’Garro, along with fellow bereaved parent Sofia Moualdi, have re-established the Enfield Sands Group. Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death

  • Town park fireworks celebrate 40 years

    The annual firework display is celebrating its 40th year this weekend. Enfield Scouts has organised the annual town firework display which will take place in Enfield Town park, on Saturday, November 1. Park gates will open at 6pm with the main