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Home deliveries offer lifeline to High Street traders

Specialist shops along Barnet High Street — as well as numerous take-away food outlets — are determined to try to continue trading in the wake of the continuing lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

Three niche businesses — Hopscotch (sweets, loose tea and cake-making supplies), The Present (gifts and homeware) and Wanders Shoes — are mong the latest to offer collection and delivery services in response to telephone and online orders.

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Life in Barnet under lockdown: children losing out

Locked and taped-off playgrounds are a poignant reminder of the impact that the coronavirus self-distancing restrictions are having on the opportunities for children to exercise and enjoy themselves.

High Barnet’s most popular parks and playing fields, including Ravenscroft Park, the Old Courthouse Recreation Ground, Byng Road playing fields and of course Hadley Green and Hadley Common, are all open and are being well used.

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Strict self-distancing and safety rules at Barnet’s allotments

Cultivating an allotment is one of the few outdoor activities that is still permitted during the coronavirus lockdown and thanks to the current run of fine, dry weather Barnet’s plots have never been busier or looked in better shape.

Strict rules on self-discipling and site hygeine apply and allotment holders are literally keeping themselves poles apart.

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Barnet Hospital staff get rousing round of applause

Barnet householders and families were out in force to join the second nationwide Thursday evening clap for carers in support of NHS workers treating patients during the coronavirus pandemic.

The turnout was especially strong in the streets around Barnet Hospital — part of the Royal Free Hospital Foundation — where residents clapped on the doorsteps, blew whistles, banged saucepans and even at one house played a trumpet.

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More tree planting on Barnet Hill

Planting trees on Barnet Hill has been one of the great achievements of the Barnet Society — and it is still work in progress with a row of Hawthorn being the lastest.

A working party succeeded — a few weeks before the introduction of coronavirus restrictions — in planting a total of 50 Hawthorn whips with stakes and protective shields along the boundary fence of the Vale Drive clinic.

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Shutters down and closed shop doors in Barnet High Street

Only around 20 shops and retail outlets are still open for business along the entire length of Barnet High Street during the second week of the tightening squeeze being imposed by the coronavirus lockdown.

Shoppers are few and far between and the only other sign of activity has been two workmen — complete with face masks, and at a safe distance — adding the final touches to the pavement widening.

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Election candidates pitch for votes

The fate of the car park at High Barnet tube station and a critical shortage of general practitioners across the borough were two local issues – in addition to Brexit and climate change – that produced lively exchanges at the Chipping Barnet constituency election hustings.

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Residents’ anger over loss of pedestrian walkway

The wall built over a pedestrian walkway to the Byng Road environment centre, playing fields and allotments

Barnet Council is investigating complaints by local residents that the newly opened Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice has extended its car park to include a pedestrian grass verge along the road leading to the Byng Road environment centre, playing fields and allotments.

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The Ark, Barnet: “best children’s hospice in the world”

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, officially opened the Ark in Byng Road, Barnet – the new £8.5 million state-of-the-art children’s hospice that will support children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in north and central London and Hertsmere.

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