News Results

26 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
A celebration of the joy of growing and eating beans organised by members of Barnet’s innovative Incredible Edible campaign group was a journey from start to finish – from seed to plate.


26 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Barnet’s long-established international folk dance club is being relaunched to take advantage of the growing popularity of the traditional folk music and dancing of the Balkans with the hope of attracting a wider membership.


20 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Since the start of the year police officers in the neighbourhood team for High Barnet and Barnet Vale have spent most of their time in plain clothes targeting persistent offenders including shoplifters and drug dealers and have made a total of 55 arrests.


19 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
An art workshop arranged as part of the London Festival of Architecture combined the idea of dreams and visions seen through notable window frames of historic buildings in and around High Barnet.


19 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
A purpose-built space where young people can be themselves has been built in the grounds of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in Byng Road, Barnet.


18 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
In advance of a key meeting which campaigners understand will be held in mid-July, BringBarnetBack have launched a last-minute appeal to Barnet Council to give the go-ahead for a new football stadium at Underhill.


12 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
A concerted police operation targeting shoplifting in Barnet High Street and around the Everyman cinema has resulted in 47 arrests in the last five months – far more than the total number of arrests made during the previous three years.


10 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Barnet Museum’s trustees have had to withdraw their bid to save High Barnet’s historic Tudor Hall for community use because of a lack of financial resources to repair and then maintain the building.


9 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Seven Barnet winners of the King’s Badge – the highest award in the Boys’ Brigade and Girls’ Association – were honoured at a special service at Barnet United Reformed Church after an official presentation at Guildhall in the City of London.


9 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Mock battles with weapons made from foam were one of the highlights for children attending the annual Barnet Medieval Festival at its new and enlarged site on farmland in Galley Lane.


9 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Greater London’s first 3x3 basketball court – with a vibrant blue playing surface -- has been opened at Barnet Playing Fields off Barnet Lane, Underhill. 3x3 basketball – for six players instead of the usual ten – is growing in popularity.


7 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Despite an ominous weather forecast, Barnet’s sixth annual medieval festival attracted a record number of military re-enactors and medieval traders to its new site on farmland in Galley Lane.


6 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
A container garden which won an award at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show has been recreated at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in Byng Road, Barnet. The aim of the layout is to provide a calming sophisticated space – an ideal amenity for the hospice garden.


4 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
After being boarded up for the last 20 years a fresh attempt is about to be made to see whether it might be possible to get the abandoned Quinta Youth Club in Mays Lane, Barnet, refurbished or rebuilt and returned to community use.


1 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Arkley’s annual village fayre attracted even more entrants than last year for its all-comers dog show – and the class for golden oldies among local canines proved especially popular. First prize went to Tracey with Teabag, her eleven-year-old Bichon Frise. Another old timer, Raffi, took second place – Sue’s 15-year-old Chinese crested hairless.


1 Jun 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Opening the fifth annual High Barnet Chamber Music Festival will be a family concert at St Mark’s Church, Barnet Vale, a new venue for this summer’s event.


30 May 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Barnet Council is preparing a new procedure to allow residents to apply for a 20mph speed limit on side roads where they think driving is too fast and poses a danger to pedestrians and a risk of traffic accidents.


28 May 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
The UOE Store group which operates a chain of franchised Post Offices around London and the Home Counties – including at Potters Bar and East Finchley -- is to take over the operation of Barnet Post Office.


26 May 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Fire engines and crews from around north London were called to a massive fire which engulfed one of the large Georgian houses beside Hadley Green. Such was the ferocity of the blaze that for several hours water had to be pumped from Brewers’ Pond just across the green.


22 May 2025 | Written by Nick Jones
Tucked away at a wildlife site in the Barnet green belt is an enchanting array of community gardens which were developed in the 1950s, and which played a part in the early development of organic gardening.




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