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At its meeting on 16 January Enfield Council's Health Scrutiny Panel will be briefed on the Council's strategies to tackle public health and health inequalties by Tessa Lindfield, Director of Public Health, and Glenn Stewart, Assistant Director of Public Health.
The briefing paper provided for the meeting notes that
"The role of public health is to advise on the design of Council and NHS services and the design of Enfield as a place to promote health and reduce inequalities. This recognises.......
St Monica's Players are running their Big Race Night on 3rd March. Here are a couple of Special Races videos from previous years to put you in the mood:
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The fun and games will be held at the Scout Hut next to Tile Kiln Lane Open Space, N13 6BY. Click on the flyer below for more details.
The next SMP production is The Little Mermaid at the Intimate Theatre (18th to 21st January)........
This article by James Cracknell was originally published on 17 December 2017 on the ENTWO website.
Two years ago this month I cycled from London to Paris with a group of climate activists.
We were travelling to the United Nations’ COP21 climate talks, raising awareness of the importance of the talks along the way. On the Champs-Élysées we joined with tens of thousands of others – including many who had cycled from around Europe as we did – to demand the strongest.......
If you've ever wondered about the "obelisk" in Bounds Green Road, its history and the story of the person is commemorates are recounted by Harringay Online.
The obelisk, actually a drinking fountain, was erected in 1879, originally in the middle of the road, but is now located on the grass, opposite Nightingale Gardens. It commemorates Mrs Catherine Smithies of Earlham Grove, Wood Green, founder of the Band of Mercy Movement. The Band of Mercy was a predecessor of the RSPCA. .......
It's still technically Christmas/Yuletide, so I'm just in time to upload this photo of part of the window display in the Broomfield Estates shop in Aldermans Hill.
INTO 2018 WITH TALKIES:BBC correspondent Kurt Barling kicks off 2018 introducing ’I am not your Negro’, followed a week later by a film about a very special marriage, ruled on by the American Supreme Court.Start filling in your 2018 cultural diary!
THURS 4 JANI AM NOT YOUR NEGROTHE DUGDALE CENTREBased on the work of author and activist.......
Hostile Streets - Walking and Cycling at Outer London Junctions was published by the Greater London Authority's Transport Committee at the end of November. Shortly afterwards I went along to a meeting of Islington Living Streets to see a presentation about the report given by Caroline Russell.
Caroline Russell is one of two Green Party Assembly Members (AMs) and is a member of the Transport Committee. She was the Rapporteur for this particular study, which was carried out at her initiative........
Times are tight: Talkies is a volunteer-led, not for profit organisation, but we are finding funding from grants and sponsorships is in short supply. Our audience is brilliant at supporting us, but subscribing as a 'Friend of Talkies' would really help us to keep bringing great film events to your doorstep.
Tricia - on behalf of the Talkies Team
HOW WILL BECOMING A FRIEND HELP US IN 2018?
We hope with your support we can continue to be.......
Transcript of evidence on cycling infrastructure given by Andrew Gilligan, former Cyclilng Commission to the previous Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to a meeting of the GLA Transport Committee on 6 December 2017.
Keith Prince AM (Chairman): It now gives me great pleasure to welcome Andrew [Gilligan], a man I worked with a few years ago when he was the Cycling Czar. He is not any more. His title is ‘Cycling Czar emeritus’ or something, in the Latin. We are now going to do a section.......
The Trent Park Museum Trust has announced the death of Fritz Lustig, the last of the "secret listeners", who collected invaluable intelligence by listening in to bugged conversations between German prisoners of war during World War 2.
This once top secret intelligence gathering was carried out at three large country houses that had been requisitioned, one being Trent Park. Fritz Lustig, a refugee from Nazi Germany, did not himself work at Trent Park, but as one of only two surviving.......
"If we could reduce speed limits to 20mph in these built-up areas then anybody who's got children, anybody who works with children, anybody who sees what we see, would have to be supporting us."
Words spoken by a surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital as part of a video telling a true story. Along with a policeman, an ambulance driver, a parent and the young victim of a road traffic collision, she makes the unanswerable case for 20mph limits on urban roads........