Shopping centre needs to step up
I was shocked to read Brent Cross shopping centre does not pay its cleaners the Living Wage.
View ArticleReduce unfair taxes
Both main parties seem to want to tax us into oblivion. Where are people going to find the extra tax to pay for huge increases in public spending that will inevitably take place under both...
View ArticleI challenge my opponents to attend hustings
What is happening to democracy in Chipping Barnet? It is a centuries-old British tradition that parliamentary candidates of rival paries appear together on public platforms for hustings, enabling the...
View ArticleCrime statistics coverage is insightful
Your newspaper is to be congratulated for finding out the facts about crime in Barnet. Your coverage reveals that Barnet has the highest number of unsolved burglaries across London. So much for the...
View ArticleWhy I am voting for Labour candidate
I was the Green Party General Election candidate for Finchley and Golders Green in 2010. At this election I am supporting Labour’s candidate Sarah Sackman to be our next MP and I would like to explain...
View ArticleSign petition to save children’s farm
Many people will be unaware that for many years there has been a very successful children’s farm in the Ridgeway, Mill Hill, which is open daily to the public. However, not for much longer if Barnet...
View ArticleThis country needs a fairer voting system
The Times Series feature on the local constituencies for the General Election (‘Candidates hoping to win your vote’, April 9) is a perfect illustration of how very many personal voting decisions have...
View ArticleOnly fit person to serve Hendon
With the General Election imminent, I find myself torn between deciding whether to vote for the party best placed to serve this country or the candidate most likely to do their utmost for – and...
View ArticleEight questions to ask all election candidates
Before finally deciding for whom to vote, readers should ask all of the candidates the following questions?
View ArticleThanks to those who voted for me
I wish to thank the 20,604 electors in Hendon who voted for me at the General Election last week. I am sorry we were not able to deliver the result they wanted.
View ArticleVoters increased support for Greens
Well done to the thousands of brave people who voted Green in Barnet. You were all pressured very hard not to do so. You were subject to accusations that voting Green was in effect wanting some other...
View ArticleNothing to lose but good health
I am sick of hearing in the media, such negative emphasis on our doctors surgery. I’ve been a patient in Southgate Surgery for ten years and as of late, I feel I'm part of the furniture with quite a...
View ArticleYou are not a lone voice Sharon
Sharon Whilst totally supporting many of the points that Sharon Racklyeft raised in last week’s Times Series (‘Suicide is not taken seriously enough’, May 7), I was surprised that she feels very much...
View ArticleOne cat went to vote
My cat Julie was ‘feline’ that our constituency Hendon was critical as Matthew Offord only won by a whisker at the 2010 election.
View ArticleWe don’t need another mega mall
I am extremely concerned about the residents on the Whitefields Estate, which is across the North Circular from Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
View ArticleKeep control before it’s too late
I recently received a telephone call from ‘Catherine’, calling on behalf of Barnet Borough Council, asking for residents’ opinions in respect of services offered by Barnet.
View ArticleFigures, fairness and libraries
Congratulations to Barnet’s Conservative MPs, now re-elected with 50.9 per cent (Freer), 49 per cent (Offord) and 48.6 per cent (Villiers) of votes in their constituencies.
View ArticleExtremely grateful
Last week, I was taking a small package by bicycle to the post office. Unfortunately, the parcel, which contained a watch that I was sending to Seiko, dropped off the back of my bicycle. I retraced my...
View ArticleCut councillors to two per ward
Okay, so we are facing cuts. Some are needed, let’s be fair. But the way in which they are being done isn’t fair at all.
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