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Fury over 5am pub plan

A PUB s bid to stay open to 5am at weekends has been dropped after being branded a disgrace by neighbours already locked in a battle over noisy revelry there....

Boris lost in Tottenham

LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson was spotted in Broad Lane, South Tottenham, after getting lost on his way to Walthamstow....

Playground backed by 'secret millionaire' faces cash crisis

A SAFE haven for deprived children is fighting for survival just months after it was supported by a TV Secret Millionaire ....

Bogus caller attacked woman on doorstep

A BURGLAR posing as a scaffolder punched a woman in the face on her own doorstep before stealing mobile phones and laptops....

Trains disrupted by embankment blaze

CLOUDS of smoke and ash erupted as a grassed railway embankment went up in flames, disrupting trains for five hours. Firefighters fought the blaze by tracks near to Leeside Road, Tottenham, from 1.20pm last Thursday....

New gym to open

A NEW state-of-the-art weight training gym will be launched this weekend at Wood Green s White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre....

Carnival comes to town!

ONE OF the biggest fundraising events in Hornsey s calendar is hoping to outshine the sun this weekend, as the carnival and funfair roll into town....

Litter tops residents' concerns, says MP

LITTER and fly-tipping have made it to the top of residents concerns, an MP s survey has revealed. Andy Love, MP for Edmonton, has slammed Enfield Council s cleanliness record after a residents survey he conducted....

Historic estate 'on the road to ruin'

A 125-YEAR-old green vision of an urban paradise for the working classes is at risk of being lost for good in Wood Green....

Explorers in plea for rally sponsorship

THREE intrepid explorers urgently need sponsorship to help them drive the 10,000 mile Mongol Rally in a second-hand ambulance....

Letters

Sport

Haringey stars are top of the class

HARINGEY topped their group in the London Youth Games badminton qualifiers and will now battle seven other boroughs to be crowned champions. With 31 boroughs and 300 badminton players......

Ryan is king of the hill

RYAN McKinlay was in outstanding form for Highgate Harriers, who won their fourth Southern League Division One men's match at Parliament Hill on Saturday. McKinlay clinched a double when......

Penty to celebrate for Highgate

HIGHGATE Harriers won both the men's and women's team events in Sunday s Hampstead 10km road race in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Highgate runners were first and second in the women s event......

New girl Nicola is on the trail again

A 26-year-old trailblazer in the world of women's boxing has joined Haringey Police Boxing Club, and is now hoping to get a shot at Olympic glory in 2012. A product of the Star and Fitness gym in Leeds, Nicola Adams moved down to the capital......

Matt finish as cool Holly guides Highgate home

Highgate 123-7 (10pts) beat Wycombe House 122 (0) HIGHGATE kept tabs on the leading pack with an emphatic win over Wycombe House at Shepherd s Cot on Saturday. With the evening rain dominating the Middlesex County League programme......

Evan undone by heavens opening as North Mid are denied by rain

NORTH MIDDLESEX missed out on the chance to make ground on Division Two leaders Southgate as their game at Brentham was abandoned with no result. That was hard on North Mid who were going for a third successive league win......

Ridley's hot, but weather hits NL

CHRIS RIDLEY'S brilliant century ended up being in vain for North London as Saturday evening's downpour ensured they stayed bottom of Division Two. Having struggled to post a decent target all season......

Nigel Bags the points for AP

SIX wickets for Nigel Bagley rescued Alexandra Park after they appeared to be heading for defeat against SKLP, but edged back to defend a low score. Derick Cordy won the toss for AP, and he and Alistair Wilson......

Gregory keeps it in the family as Hornsey triumph

FOR the second time in three weeks the Gregory brothers combined to take 10 wickets in Hornsey's determined Division Three win at Ickenham on Saturday. Ian Gregory once again dazzled with 9-28 in 11.5 overs......

Late blooming Flowers wins it for Mid

NORTH Middlesex surged to second place in the Division Two table with a dramatic win over Uxbridge at Park Road on Saturday. With the visitors chasing 220 to win from 50 overs......

Lo blow for battling AP

ALEXANDRA Park were forced to settle for a losing draw despite a strong second-wicket partnership of 139 against Lohana. After winning the toss for the first time this season on Saturday......

Award winners can't tame the Lions

WINGATE & Finchley's cup exploits last season were recognised with a prestigious award last week. New manager David Norman saw his side win the Team Performance of the Season award......

Crocodile cheers for Park kids

A FUN-packed Friday saw pupils and teachers from Weston Park Primary School get into the spirit of the London 2012 Olympics with their annual sports day at Finsbury Park. Years one to six took part in a range of athletic events......

Only seven for Ian this time

Hornsey 87-5 (4pts) drew with Kenton 154 (1) IAN Gregory put in another spectacular performance against Kenton, but it wasn t enough to take the points as Hornsey were forced to settle for a losing draw. Gregory followed up his recent......

Irving quits as Skolars fall apart

STRUGGLING Skolars are searching for new management after head coach Callum Irving resigned ahead of Saturday s heavy defeat to Dewsbury. Irving left the Skolars last Tuesday having been at the club for 18 months......

What's On

REVIEW: ICE AGE 3: AGE OF THE DINOSAURS (U)

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews ICE AGE 3: AGE OF THE DINOSAURS (U)....

REVIEW: PUBLIC ENEMIES

DUNCAN HEPBURN reviews PUBLIC ENEMIES (15)....

REVIEW: STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE (18)....

REVIEW: EMBODIMENT OF EVIL

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (18)....

REVIEW: YEAR ONE

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews YEAR ONE (12A)....

REVIEW: SUNSHINE CLEANING

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews SUNSHINE CLEANING (15)....

REVIEW: RUDO AND CURSI

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews RUDO AND CURSI (15)....

REVIEW: THE LAST THAKUR

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews THE LAST THAKUR (15)....

REVIEW: SHIRIN

JUSTIN MATLOCK reviews SHIRIN (PG)....

Barry Forshaw's DVD Choice

Pick of the DVDs....

LIVE REVIEW: RAY DAVIES AND CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS

THE first of this year's Summer Picnic Concerts at Kenwood was in danger of being washed away as a monsoon-style storm hit Hampstead Heath for two hours before the start of Ray Davies' opening show on Saturday....

LINDA LEWIS: The roller coaster ride of my rock star life

LINDA Lewis asks teasingly: 'Did you think I was a little girl?' as she answers the phone at her Islington home, once the residence of a certain Mr T Blair. A lot of people make that mistake....

ALBUM REVIEWS: RAY DAVIES and THE MUMMERS

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: PAOLO NUTINI and PATRICK WOLF

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: PASSION PIT and DANIEL MERRIWEATHER

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: ALESSI'S ARK and STEVE ABEL & THE CHRYSALIDS

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: TOM BROSSEAU and LISA HANNIGAN

Album reviews....

ALBUM REVIEWS: ESSER and THE MACCABEES

Albums reviews....

LIVE REVIEW: TAJ MAHAL

BARREL-bellied and sweating heavily, legendary bluesman Taj Mahal squints, sucks in his cheeks and pouts as he mercilessly squeezes another high note from his guitar....

ALBUM REVIEWS: THE VEILS and SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Album reviews....

THE WINTER’S TALE

IT was always an ambitious idea – acclaimed director Sam Mendes bringing together actors from both sides of the pond to perform both Chekhov and Shakespeare....

BEEN SO LONG

The Young Vic, 66 The Cut, SE1 THE Arizona Bar is failing and even its owner Barney (soul legend Omar Lyefook) says it is a bar for losers and is closing it down at the end of the week. Like a fly on the wall we watch the last few customers come and go...

WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD

THIS play about survival in a Nazi concentration camp is a powerful and important story whose mission is writ large across the title – to carry on the word and not allow us to forget the horrors of the Holocaust....

PETER PAN

Kensington Gardens, W2 AS DASHING and gripping as its Kensington Gardens setting, this unprecedented 360 degree marquee-styled Peter Pan is simply jaw-dropping in parts....

MADAM BUTTERFLY

FEAST your eyes on the third revival of the late Anthony Minghella s visually stunning production of Madam Butterfly....

THE KING AND I

YOU might think there could be no more appropriate setting for this tale of Royal romance than Queen Victoria's memorial to her beloved Albert – the king who never was....

PHEDRE

RACINE'S Phedre relates the tale of the wife of Theseus who, believing her husband to be dead, tells her chaste stepson Hippolytus of the uncontrollable lust she feels for him....

SISTER ACT

SISTER ACT is a great big high quality sparkly West End musical with a heart of gold....

GREAT DAMES

CABARET performer Christine Pedi brings her award-winning show from New York and Cape Town to the delightful Jermyn Street Theatre – a charming and bijoux space in the heart of the West End....

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

THE OLD VIC s production of Chekov s tragic-comic play concerning the inability of an aristocratic Russian family to save their estate is an impressively acted, slow-burning delight....

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