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Hillary Kelly on the legacy of the British memoirist Diana Athill, the author of “Instead of a Letter,” “Somewhere Towards the End,” and “Alive, Alive Oh!”

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Plans to build a 70-bed care home in Highgate, Haringey, have been approved despite neighbours’ fears it will block out sunlight and damage homes.

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".

People have less than a week to comment on plans to demolish and redevelop a valued care home in Highgate.

Gallery: In and out of lockdown, there was plenty going on in Camden, Haringey and Barnet in 2021.

The new owner said it hoped to share redevelopment plans "in the near future" - Credit: Polly Hancock All residents have now left the Mary Feilding Guild care home in Highgate.  The final pensioner packed their bags on Thursday (May 6) after the new owner decided to close the home, which has been renamed Highgate House. Highgate Care took over from Mary Feilding Guild in March and immediately announced it was to close the facility, giving 16 residents aged between 85 and 104 until the end ...

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...