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Is festival necessary?
In the latest issue of Our Enfield just received, on page 19, I quote: “The bottom line is we will deliver value for money in everything we do, so that we can protect our frontline services — that is what you the residents expect and deserve.” Relating
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Enjoy this hidden gem
Last Saturday, along with my friend and on the recommendation of my friend and her brother, we visited a real hidden gem in Enfield: Myddelton House and gardens. It is beautiful and well worth a visit. The hard work and attention to detail of Mr
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The fight must go on
I would like to pay tribute to Kate Wilkinson, Ivy Beard and Kieran McGregor for their unstinting fight over the past six years and showing us the route to common sense over the crucial services under threat at Chase Farm Hospital. At last, all the
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Challenge was needed
If Kate Wilkinson and Kieran McGregor want to know why people in Enfield voted them out as councillors in last year’s elections, they only have to re-read their letter of last week (‘Time to deliver on promises’, Opinion, April 27). Putting aside the
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Alternative is simple
We have the opportunity to vote for a better voting system on May 5. Those opposed to the alternative vote are stooping very low indeed. They seem hell-bent on creating confusion and seem to have no qualms about peddling distortions of the truth.
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Was there really hope?
People in Enfield will rightly wonder why, despite making it the centrepiece of his election campaign, Tory MP Mr de Bois has now come out against Chase Farm hospital. Everything in Enfield Council’s report — a 24-hour A&E, consultant-led women’s and
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Focus for more positive voting
This week sees the first referendum held in my lifetime, allowing us to change the voting system. The current system, first-past-the-post (FPTP), is perfect for deciding between two choices, but now we have several, with Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem
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No payment for being tidy
I didn’t believe what I was reading (‘Prizes for tidy citizens’, Enfield Independent, April 27). To be giving £50 in vouchers to good citizens putting litter in bins — whatever next? Fifty pounds for keeping your car clean or your front garden tidy?
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Consider the others
It seems that Bowes Primary School will benefit significantly from the A406 improvement scheme. The school will gain space by the closure of the end of Stanley Road, which runs at the side or it. By blocking off its junction with the A406 Bowes Road
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Time to deliver on promises
An open letter to Andrew Lansley MP, Secretary of State for Health. During the lengthy history of the campaign to save Chase Farm, many different hurdles have been thrown at the public in Enfield to jump over. The proposed cuts to our A&E department
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AV way is the clearest
Anthony Norman (‘Confusing and unfair’, Opinion, April 6) fails to realise that second preference votes are already counted as equal to first preference votes — it’s called tactical voting. The big difference is that while first past the post elections
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The choice of the GPs
We, the GPs of Enfield Town, Bush Hill Park and other practices serving more than 37,000 patients, as well as the residents of Enfield, want to continue with similar frontline services of both Chase Farm Hospital and Barnet General Hospital sites
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Protect our local traders
After a quarter of a century of service to the local community, Bounds Green Press, of 129—131 Bounds Green Road N11 ceased trading on March 31. This unfortunate closure was discussed at a committee meeting of the Bounds Green and District Residents
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Good times on camera
I am sending a picture of a street party taken in approximately 1936 (the coronation of King George VI) held in Walton Street, off Lancaster Road, Enfield. The old lady in the middle (and probably the organiser) is my great grandmother Mrs Elizabeth
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Urgent need to rethink
The recently announced drastic reduction in ambulance numbers in London has removed the basic premise for ever closing Chase Farm Hospital A&E and for centralising stroke services. We were always told that provision of transport between Chase Farm and
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How can cost be justified?
Is it fair that, having taken away our local sub post office in Mottingham Road and removed the stamp boxes attached to pillar boxes, the nearest retailer of stamps should be allowed to charge 50p to purchase one first class stamp available from the post
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US adviser in Palmers Green Mosque talk
A KEY adviser to Barack Obama's policy team on Afghanistan and Pakistan spoke to Enfield residents at an event yesterday. Vali Nasr, a senior adviser to the US State Department, spoke at an event at Palmers Green Mosque, in Oakthorpe Road,
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July 7 coroner urges review of procedures for security and emergency services
NINE recommendations to prevent a repeat of the July 7 terror attacks and improve the emergency response have been made by the coroner at the inquests of the 52 people killed. Earlier today Lady Justice Hallett gave a verdict of “unlawful killing
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'Unlawful killing' verdict for July 7 victims
THE inquest into the deaths of 52 people killed during the July 7 terror attacks has ruled they were all victims of “unlawful killing”. However, coroner Lady Justice Heather Hallett decided none of the dead could have survived, despite claims
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Tube services disrupted this morning due to broken-down train
TUBE users are being turned away this morning after bosses were forced to part-suspend the Piccadilly Line. A faulty train at Arsenal caused services between King's Cross and Arnos Grove to be shut down this morning, from around 10am.
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Man jailed for pulling out knife on train
A KNIFE-wielding thug from Enfield who terrorised train passengers has been jailed for four months. Mark Punt pulled out a six-inch blade on passengers at White Hart Lane Station in December last year, grabbing one man by the collar and pointing
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Verdict of July 7 inquests due today
THE families of the 52 people killed in the July 7 bombings in 2005 will today hear the verdict of the inquests. Twenty-one people from Barnet, Borehamwood, Haringey, Wembley and Enfield died when four Al-Qaeda-affiliated suicide bombers detonated
