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  • Travel disruption begins across Enfield after snowfall

    MOTORISTS are expecting extensive delays this evening after snow fell across the borough. Traffic is crawling along the M25 between junctions at Enfield and Watford, with warnings of up to an hour's delay. The snow fall this afternoon is

  • Enfield drug dealer stashed bags of cocaine under stairs

    A DRUG dealer caught with almost £200,000-worth of cocaine and two stun guns has been jailed. Nigel Robert Thompson, 47, was arrested after Enfield officers raided his home in Birbeck Road in May this year. They discovered five bags of cocaine

  • MPs back hacker as Home Secretary continues to consider case

    MORE than 30 MPs and peers have signed a Christmas card supporting the plight of Enfield hacker Gary McKinnon. The effort was made on the day Home Secretary Theresa May gave evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee which is looking

  • Probe launched into student protest claims

    AN investigation has been launched into police tactics at the last student demonstrations in London after a Middlesex University student needed emergency brain surgery after being hit on the head. Alfie Meadows, 20, who took part in demonstrations

  • A holistic approach

    Enfield and Haringey Councils need urgently to negotiate with Transport for London about appropriate revised timetables for proposed road-calming schemes for side roads near the A406 north circular road where work on a safety and environmental scheme

  • Review to benefit all

    Local MP Nick De Bois is quoted in the online article ‘Health bosses are “bullying” Enfield over hospital plans, says MP’, www.enfieldindenpendent.co.uk, December 2 as saying that “this report tries to bully Enfield into accepting the downgrade of Chase

  • Progress should be welcomed

    I am writing in response to express the general disagreement in our neighbourhood with the letter that your paper published last week (‘Calming stirs up fury’, Opinion, December 8), written by resident Laura Davenport whose political ambitions seem to

  • No defence for cost of tuition

    The passing of the universities bill on Thursday spelled a sad day for Britain where the elite broke new ground in denying people of modest means an opportunity to excel and achieve their aspirations. It can never be right to make those who cannot afford

  • Policy of a past century

    Under the guise of the Labour council’s long and expensive process often dressed up as “consultation”, can I reply to their appeal for residents’ views and suggest a quick way of saving council taxpayers nearly a million pounds over the life of this administration

  • Spurs stars visit sick children in hospital

    CHILDREN in an Enfield hospital received an early Christmas present when Spurs stars visited them for the day. Striker Jermain Defoe and defenders Younes Kaboul and Benoit Assou-Ekotto went to Rainbow Ward at North Middlesex University Hospital

  • Town look to build on Forest victory

    ENFIELD Town will be looking to make it two wins on the trot this weekend. Town's dramatic 3-2 win at Waltham Forest - in which they scored three times in the final four minutes - will have given Steve Newing's side plenty of optimism ahead of the visit