Sunday, 08 May 2016 12:21
New academy school plans on display
After a year’s delay, and a dearth of information, public exhibitions are finally being arranged to allow public consultation over the proposals to build a new free school with over 1,800 places on the site of the Underhill Stadium, formerly the home of Barnet Football Club.
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Tuesday, 03 May 2016 10:21
Bench done. Now tackle the graffiti!
“The boys dun good” was the general consensus of passers-by as three High Barnet seniors spent 16 man hours giving the Church Passage bench a much-needed wash and brush-up.
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Friday, 22 April 2016 17:47
Queen’s birthday beacon at Monken Hadley
High Barnet’s claim to be the highest spot between London and York meant it was ideally situated to take part in the lighting of beacons to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday.
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Friday, 22 April 2016 17:40
Community action spruces up Church Passage bench
Three volunteers spent the morning washing down and scrubbing clean the long, architecturally-designed teak bench that is beside the gardens in Church Passage, just off Barnet High Street.
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Monday, 18 April 2016 11:16
Barnet’s artists publicise work
Local residents will get more opportunities to view the work of members of the Barnet Guild of Artists if arrangements can be made to increase the number of public displays of their paintings and other art forms.
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Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:26
Barnet’s love of poetry
Celebrations surrounding the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death gave an added impetus to the monthly gathering of the Barnet Poetry Group when members spent an April Saturday afternoon discussing the playwright’s many soliloquies and speeches.
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Monday, 11 April 2016 10:18
Environment centre red-scissor opening
Schools in and around Barnet are already queuing up for their pupils to visit the Byng Road nature reserve and its new eco-friendly environment centre after its official opening by leading benefactor Janet Hulme of the Hadley Trust.
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Friday, 08 April 2016 10:10
Barnet still a cut above
Barnet is living up to its fame in Cockney rhyming slang: a survey shows there are more hairdressing salons in the London borough Barnet than in any other part of capital, except for the West End.
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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 12:39
Threat to Whalebones receding?
Any planning application to build houses on the 14 acres of woods and farmland at Whalebones – between Wood Street and Barnet Hospital – is “highly unlikely” to be approved, says the Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers.
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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 12:24
Bulldozers move in at Elmbank
Work has finally started at the Elmbank site, opposite the Arkley public house, to demolish derelict nurses’ homes that have been an eyesore for years.
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Friday, 01 April 2016 17:31
Search for Battle of Barnet chapel
A series of test pits are to be dug on land inside Wrotham Park as part of an investigation to locate the possible site a chapel that was erected to commemorate men killed in the Battle of Barnet of 1471.
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Monday, 21 March 2016 10:47
Another historic building to be converted for housing
Barratt London have released the first details of their plans to build up to 450 homes in and around the site of one of Barnet’s most iconic landmarks, the former headquarters of the National Institute for Medical Research on the Ridgeway, Mill Hill.
Monday, 21 March 2016 10:30
A peep inside physic well
Visitors queued up for opening time at Barnet’s historic well house – not for a drink, but a rare chance to descend the twelve steps to see the tanks of the old physic well.
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Monday, 21 March 2016 10:09
Day centre 40th anniversary
Chipping Barnet’s popular day centre for the elderly – with a waiting list for places – celebrates its 40th anniversary in June.
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Thursday, 10 March 2016 10:52
Affordable workshops a priority for Brake Shear House site
A joint approach is being made by local groups to try to ensure that the new office block to be built as part of the Brake Shear House redevelopment, just off Barnet High Street, includes as much affordable workspace as possible.
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Tuesday, 08 March 2016 11:47
A chance to see – but not to taste
Barnet’s historic physic well, visited by Samuel Pepys, will be open to the public on Saturday 19 March offering a rare chance to walk down the brick-built stairway to see the tanks filled by spring water.
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Tuesday, 08 March 2016 11:30
Blue plaque for hospice pioneer
A campaign is being launched to persuade English Heritage to award one of its renowned blue plaques to the Hadley Green home of the late Dame Cicely Saunders, the Barnet-born founder of the hospice movement.
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Friday, 26 February 2016 12:01
Go ahead for 114 homes on Elmbank
Planning approval has finally been given for the demolition of one of High Barnet’s worst eyesores, the derelict blocks of nurses’ homes opposite the Arkley public house.
Friday, 26 February 2016 11:38
Woodland project helps vulnerable children
A woodland project at Barnet’s centre for vulnerable and excluded school children is hoping to qualify for a £12,000 award from Tesco’s Helping Hands initiative.
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Saturday, 13 February 2016 17:50
QE Girls “alive with the sound of music!”
Seventy pupils spent six months preparing and rehearsing for a spectacular production of The Sound of Music at Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School, Barnet.
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