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  • Quiz show star drops in for Q&A with pupils

    Quiz panelist and editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop answered questions from pupils at an Enfield school. Mr Hislop, who is a regular panellist on BBC2 satirical show Have I Got News For You, visited Ashmole Academy, in Cecil Road, Southgate, to

  • Double celebration for primary school

      A headteacher is celebrating after taking her school out of special measures in less than 18 months. Helen Pearson, headteacher at De Bohun Primary School, in Green Road, Southgate, is also rejoicing after the school's key stage two SATs results

  • BT fined for dodgy road resurfacing

    Phone company BT has been fine more than £8,000 for bad road repairs after it had relaid cables. The telecommunications firm was fined £8,500 and ordered to pay £5,000 costs and a £60 victim surcharge after pleading guilty to second rate repairs

  • Church holds free car wash day

    A church helped wash more than 70 cars in its second community car wash event. The Revival Christian Church of Enfield, in London Road, spent five hours giving cars a free spring clean in a bid to bring more people together in the community.

  • Energy network to provide cheaper heat for thousands

    Homes across the borough are set to be run on cheaper heat from a new council-run company. The Lee Valley Heat Network will create energy from waste at the industrial Ecopark, in Advent Way, Edmonton, in the form of heat and steam and channel it

  • Cuts to scrutiny panels slammed

    Changes to the way council decisions are scrutinised will "fundamentally weaken" the means to hold the authority to account, opposition councillors have claimed. Under the latest plans passed by Enfield Borough Council, the six panels that currently