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Kevin Croft from Friends of Arnos Park invites local people to join the friendly and inclusive group's monthly groundforce days in the community garden/growing space.

If you go along to art galleries hoping to experience the sublime, then the exhibition that's on at the Southgate Club in Chase Side is probably not for you. But if it's the ridiculous that 'grabs you by your shakers and lifts you like a wing', then you're in for a treat.

The latest addition to the PGC Community Directory is a bowls club off Hedge Lane, just over the New River bridge.

The Southgate Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team, together with the council's Journeys and Places Team and the Met Police, are running an event on 14th March to find out women's feelings about their safety in Southgate town centre.

On the afternoon of Friday 21st March the Southgate Beaumont care home on Cannon Hill will be hosting an exhibition of paintings by Regina Skrida, inspired by the beautiful landscapes of her native Lithuania.

Artists have until 21st March to submit entries to the third Enfield Community Art Exhibition, which will be held in Palmers Green in June, in the revamped Devonshire Square and at Arbeit Studios off Green Lanes.

Enfield Council has dropped its plans to create a controlled parking zone in 'Palmers Green East'. The results of a public consultation held last year indicated overwhelming opposition to the proposal, while a residents' group opposed to the CPZ and another planned for Arnos Grove had threatened legal action, claiming that that the proposals were unlawful.

Local campaigners opposed to proposals for housebuilding on countryside in the north of Enfield borough were among the first to hear about an appeal today to the mayor of London to abandon plans for a review of the Green Belt and instead tackle the 'real causes' of the housing crisis.

PG resident Steve Acroyd has been undergoing expensive treatment for a rare type of brain cancer. He's made tremendous progress, thanks to generour donations from others, but the money is running out. A 'big fat raffle' offers you the chance to win some excellent prizes, and Steve the chance to continue to get better.

On Monday 3rd October a bridge in Enfield Town will be formally named after a much missed local cat.

Winchmore String Orchestra's spring newsletter whets our appetites for the feast of Nordic music that they will be laying on in Southgate on Saturday 5th April.

Local residents and businesses are being invited to become involved in 'stewarding' Devonshire Square once it reopens in the spring. There will be a public meeting updating people about plans for the square on Tuesday 4th March.