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Haringey Federation of Residents Associations and Haringey Friends of Parks Forum have produced three booklets describing walks across the borough that trace the history of Wood Green and Tottenham and visit their highlights:  a palace, a castle, numerous conservation areas, several parks and London's own River Moselle (without vineyards, unfortunately). The booklets can be obtained from libraries in Haringey or downloaded using the links below. Alexandra Palace to Bruce Castle.......

The Pinkham Way Allliance (PWA) is asking its supporters to sign up to be represented by the Alliance in the ongoing London Borough of Haringey's Local Plan Main Modifications public consultation. The PWA has written a response to the main modifications document which is aimed at overturning Haringey Council's insistence that the Pinkham Way site continue to be allocated as a potential employment site.  Quite apart from the fact that it poses a threat to an ecologically valuable site and.......

All of our readers will doubtless be aware that there are very many rough sleepers in our city, especially if they visit central London.  According to official figures, the number of rough sleepers in the UK has doubled over the past six years.  They are only the tip of the iceberg - the visible sign of the 60,000 families who are currently homeless, but most of whom manage to find a roof for the night one way or another. Unsurprisingly, the various political parties have differing.......

If you haven't made a New Year's Resolution or you've already given up on the one you did make, why not decide to become a Friend of Talkies Community Cinema and help our greatest local success story become even more ambitious in its scope and popularity?  Joining now will mean you have a whole year's worth of Friends' benefits to look forward to (and opportunities to make some new flesh-and-blood friends too). Talkies has now been up and running for just over four years and its screens.......

Bowes Meadow, showing the play space Palmers Green has a new park!  Not large, but very welcome nonetheless, and fitted out with a modern multi-use games area and play space, paid for by Fairview Homes at a cost of £140,000. Bowes Meadow is just south of the North Circular, at the end of Cherry Blossom Close and.......

The Department of Health is carrying out a survey into the experiences of dementia patients and their families and carers.  The deadline for responses is 31 January 2017. Dementia: care, support and awareness The Government’s aim is for England to be the best place in the world for people with dementia, their families and carers to live and the best place to undertake research into dementia. We want to hear first-hand from people with dementia, their families and carers if we are.......

Journalists from BBC Inside Out are looking for people who live in Enfield and who have been refused or waited a long time for a cataract operation for a current affairs programme to be shown on BBC 1 regarding the restriction of NHS services. If you think you would be interested in being interviewed please contact Emma Wass on 0191 2441294 or 07738.......

If you're 40 or above and live in the UK, you could help a research project that is looking at how people's thinking skills change - or in some cases stay the same - as we get older. The research is being led by Dr Alan J. Gow, Associate Professor in Psychology at the School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and is collecting data using a survey, which you can fill in online or on paper.  Either way, it should take about 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The survey is.......

When, back in September, we published a short item stating that there were plans to build housing on part of the site occupied by the Fox, the article attracted an unprecedented degree of interest on the website and our Facebook page.  A clear indication that, even though they may not visit the pub very often or at all these days, local people regard the iconic corner building as a central feature of Palmers Green and are concerned about its future. Not far away, in Trent Park, we've seen.......

Southgate Green's new Christmas Tree before installation of lights.  It will be officially inaugurated on 20th December The Southgate Green Association (SGA) will today be singing in an impressive new "Christmas Tree" - an 18-foot Norwegian Spruce - with the help of the choir from neighbouring Christ Church, augmented by anyone else who would like to come along and join in.  The ceremony and carol singing will start at 6.30pm. SGA was able to buy and plant the tree thanks.......

VOLUNTEERS! Needed for the overnight shift on the Enfield Churches WInter Night Shelter at @AllSaintsN9 Email asn9nightshelter@gmail.com The night shelter will be operating at seven churches in the borough for thirteen weeks starting on 4th.......

The minutes of the planning panel to discuss the redevelopment proposals for Trent Park mansion and former university campus are now available on the council website and include some useful information about the project. The purpose of the meeting was to receive a briefing on the proposals, to provide local residents and other interested parties the opportunity to ask questions about the application and for the applicants, officers and Panel Members to listen to the reactions and comments........