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  • Decision next week on council tax freeze

      Leaders at Enfield Council could commit to freeze council tax for the sixth consecutive year next week. The council's cabinet will decide on Wednesday whether to keep the council tax at the same level. If agreed, the bill for an average band

  • Just the Ticket: February 6, 2015

    Here's your guide to some of the best things to do in the area this week:   Maria Evangelou ​ Singer and songwriter Maria Evangelou has just returned home to Palmers Green after a trip to Cyprus where she has been competing

  • Pupils sing at St Paul's for bishop's retirement

    Schoolchildren filled St Paul’s Cathedral with song as they performed to more than 2,000 worshippers. Pupils from Bishop Stopford’s School, in Brick Lane, Enfield, sang in honour of former Bishop of Edmonton Peter Wheatley, who retired last year

  • WIRELESS: Mary J Blige among new acts added to the line-up

    More acts have been added to the line-up for Wireless which this year will celebrate it's 10th birthday. American superstar Mary J Blige, Robin Schulz and Major Lazer are amongst the names added. The festival, sponsored by New Look, will be

  • ASBO teenager charged with driving offences

      A teenager with an ASBO has been charged with a series of driving offences. Aaron Shomade, 19, of Galliard Road, in Edmonton, is accused of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving without

  • Determined to undo the work of the Tories

    During the last four years, the Labour council has; reduced the frequency of grass cutting and tree pruning, ploughed up miles of pavements and replaced them with tarmac, trimmed and dimmed almost all street lighting to a level below the light produced

  • Trains need to be made accessible

    As a regular user of Edmonton Green station, I welcome the opening of the lifts, which was delayed several weeks after they were actually installed. However, I am interested in Councillor Chris Bond’s comment: “These new lifts now make the station

  • A big threat to Enfield’s libraries

    I am writing to urge readers who use and value their local libraries to read and fill in the Library Development Plan Consultation, which is available online and in paper form in the libraries themselves. Please read carefully and express your

  • Cycleway would be welcomed

    Apparently, one of the potential routes for a new north-south cycleway in Enfield would be on residential roads roughly parallel to Green Lanes. If this routing came with appropriate controls to manage the growing flow of lorries, vans and cars

  • Gunfire alarms would save lives

    Concerns about the possibility of a live-shooter incident taking place in the UK, especially London, have never been higher. One of the major issues during a live shooting situation is the time is takes to call the police. In a volatile and chaotic

  • The only way to have mass cycling

    This is a response to G A Musey’s letter (‘Spending on cycling does not make sense’, Opinion, January 21). The first claim is that “risk will always be there, as there is in all forms of transport”. Although this is true, it doesn’t matter; every

  • 'We are deeply shocked': family's plea to find son's killer

    The family of a murdered teenager have made an emotional plea for anyone with information about his death to come forward. Shaquan Sammy-Plummer, 17, of Tottenham, was stabbed to death in Berkeley Gardens, Winchmore Hill, after a house party on

  • BIG PICTURE: Patrick Hourihan at Highgate Gallery

    This vibrant painting is part of a new exhibition of works by surrelist painter Patrick Hourihan. On his second visit to Highgate Gallery, the artist shows more wild outpourings from the subconscious. He says: “The Mysterious Mr K & Company