Braving the rain, the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Tony Vourou, opened the annual Barnet Christmas Fayre, cutting a red ribbon stretched across the High Street.
Barnet’s credentials as a green borough have been strengthened enormously by the dedication of volunteers who maintain the seven-and-a-half-acre nature reserve and environment centre off Byng Road.
A small industrial estate behind hoardings and cafes at Pricklers Hill on the Great North Road will be replaced by a new self-storage facility if Barnet Council gives planning approval.
“Where will all the cars go?” was the first question asked by many local residents attending the first exhibition of the latest plans to build blocks of flats over the car park and self-storage container yard at High Barnet tube station.
After Christmas markets in late November were disrupted by snow, rain and wind, organisers are hoping for better weather on Sunday 1 December for the annual Barnet Christmas Fayre.
Visiting Arkley Christmas bazaar was a chance for the Chipping Barnet MP Dan Tomlinson to get into the seasonal spirit and make his acquaintance with Santa Clause.
After its opening at Underhill six years ago, Ark Pioneer Academy now has its first sixth-form pupils who were introduced to representatives of the High Barnet community.
A bid by Barnet Museum to purchase the vacant Tudor Hall has now been “positively received” by Barnet and Southgate College.
Approval has been given for the demolition of the original nurses’ home for Barnet Hospital but there still seems to be a possibility that what is now the oldest structure remaining on the hospital site might yet get a reprieve and possibly be refurbished.
A standard charge of £3.50 for an hour of parking is being proposed across the Borough of Barnet as part of a revised transport plan aimed at reducing car journeys.
Residents at the Carlton Court Care Home in Bells Hill, Barnet, spent a day engaged on activities with children from a New Barnet nursery as part of the home’s attempt to encourage visits by community groups and organisations.
At the opening of public consultations over plans for a new stadium at Underhill, officials and consultants representing Barnet Football Club insisted that the club’s owner Tony Kleanthous is ready to be as flexible as possible about a future site.
Transport for London and its developers are about to unveil details of revised plans to build flats on the car park at High Barnet tube station and the adjoining container storage site.
High Barnet is likely to lose its crown post office. It is one of 115 branches on a list for possible closure which has been announced by the Post Office’s new chairman Nigel Railton as part of what he says will have to be a radical shake-up of the business.
For The Fallen, sung by the St John the Baptist choir, concluded the Remembrance Sunday Service at the High Barnet war memorial outside the parish church.
Dan Tomlinson, who was elected Labour MP for Chipping Barnet last July, is to continue the campaign of the previous Conservative MP Theresa Villiers to persuade the Metropolitan Police to re-open High Barnet Police station to offer assistance to the public.
Barnet Football Club is to hold two meet-the-public events later this month to hear the views of residents and fans before submitting plans to build a new stadium at Underhill as close as possible to its former ground.
Barnet High Street pharmacist Naresh Maini is retiring after over 40 years of what customers say has been an outstanding record of dependable and friendly service and advice.
An all-day conference to discuss the challenges facing the 22 foodbanks across the London Borough of Barnet issued a warning of “serious concern” about levels of malnutrition among local people seeking support.
Two leading members of Tottenham Hotspur women’s team spent the afternoon meeting children and families at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in Byng Road, Barnet, as part of the club’s long-standing support for its official charity partner.
An action group formed by residents is to be a core participant at a public inquiry to oppose plans for a travellers’ caravan site on farmland off Mays Lane, Barnet. An appeal has been launched to raise money for legal representation.
Barnet Guild of Artists have bounced back with a bumper annual show after rebuilding membership and support following the difficult years of the Covid pandemic.
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A children’s story written by a Barnet author before her death has been published by her husband Tony Barnes who organised a book launch in her memory at Barnet Museum.
High Street window displays promoting Halloween will soon be replaced with Christmas themes — and this year there is a £300 prize for the best festive window display.
After requests from residents Barnet Council is carrying out a speed survey in Salisbury Road — part of the route of the 384 bus service — to see if it justifies the introduction of a 20mph speed limit.
A go ahead has finally been given by the office of the Mayor of London to the redevelopment of farmland on either side of a lane leading to the privately-owned Whalebones house in Wood Street, Barnet.
Imaginatively dressed scarecrows sitting and standing among the pews added colour and a sense of fun to a weekend of events at St Mark’s Church, Barnet Vale, to celebrate harvest festival.
After a decade of discussion and debate about building houses and flats on 14 acres of fields and woods at Whalebones, in Wood Street, Barnet, a final decision is about to be made by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, along with his planning advisers.
A fund-raising appeal has been launched to see if there is sufficient support for a campaign to restore to working order a waterfall and pond in the centre of Highlands Gardens, a small but much-loved public park tucked away in New Barnet at the corner of Leicester Road and Abbotts Road.
Bar staff at the appropriately named Builders Arms in New Barnet are having to endure what they say is a living nightmare — the pub is now surrounded by a building site which is preventing access for daytime customers.
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