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An assessment of the impact that a new Highgate care facility, The View, will have on a nearby property and flooding has been labelled "insufficient".

Readers letters The blossom in Golders Hill Park. Picture: Dr Bruce Lloyd - Credit: Dr Bruce Lloyd Climate change has not gone away Dania Saed, Year 11, Parliament Hill School, writes: 2020: the year that shook the world.  One year on and we are still in the midst of one of the greatest global crises the world has faced in history. Whilst Covid dominated the headlines, our attention turned away from other just as equally urgent issues that are silently taking their toll on the world. Climate c...

Residents outside the Mary Feilding Guild - Credit: Polly Hancock The final residents at Mary Feilding Guild are set to be moved out next week – despite the owner’s claims of “unsafe” levels of Legionella being disputed by health experts.   Highgate Care said it had been advised by Public Health England that the most recent sample scores of bacteria at the home – “over 100” – were “of concern” and that the safe level for a care home is zero.   But Public Health England tol...

Residents outside the Highgate care home - Credit: Polly Hancock Haringey Council says there is “no evidence of any cases of legionella infection” at Mary Feilding Guild.  The Highgate care home’s new owner, Mitesh Dhanak, claimed last week there was “widespread Legionella” at the facility, and that it was awaiting “urgent advice” on whether the home was safe to remain open.   Haringey Council confirmed Legionella was found in water samples, but Highgate councillor Liz Morris (L...

Highgate Care director Mitesh Dhanak (left) and Mary Feilding Guild residents (right) - Credit: Highgate Care/Polly Hancock The new owner of a Highgate care home says "widespread Legionella” could force him to close Mary Feilding Guild before the end of May.   Mitesh Dhanak, the director of Highgate Care, claims the bacteria is rife throughout the building – and that it is awaiting “urgent advice” from the Care Quality Commission and Public Health England on whether the home is safe to...

Well-educated, adventurous and a promoter of trailblazing science, there was much to distinguish 18th century aristocrat Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from her peers.  Although most famous for her letters about life in the Ottoman Empire - written during her husbands posting as ambassador to Constantinople - it is her work with smallpox inoculation that is brought to the forefront in a new biography. The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist, by Jo Willett, reveals how th...