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By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey One of the trees being taken down (Image: Rob White) “Cherished” trees that were chopped down in a suburban street were suffering from wood decay, according to Barnet Council. The council said it will plant new trees to replace those that were removed from Strathmore Gardens, Finchley, for public safety reasons. Some neighbours had raised concerns over the tree felling, which took place ear...

Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. (In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind*.)                                             — - I had one of those days yesterday. Let me describe it and see if you know what I mean. I've got one hand in my pocket, and the other hand is taking a picture (with apologies to Alanis Morrisette) I had an hour to kill while my snow tires were being swapped out for my summer tires at Trombly Tire and Auto. So I brought the A6600 and Sigma 30mm Contemporary alo...

Submitting... The battlecruiser, built in 1918, was one of the Royal Navy’s largest and most famous – and her sinking the Royal Navy’s single largest loss of life in the Second World War. HMS Hood before her departure from Scapa Flow, taken from HMS Prince of Wales. Picture: Orkney Library and Archive Accompanied by newly-commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales and six destroyers, she had been sent to try to prevent Bismarck reaching the North Atlantic from Norway because of her threat to Allied shipping. The event will include talks on the ship’s construction in Clydebank, her vi...

80th anniversary events to mark HMS Hood’s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow in Orkney against Bismarck announced Alastair Dalton The 80th anniversary of HMS Hood's ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow to intercept Germany’s largest battleship Bismarck is be marked with series of online events this month, organiser Another Orkney Production has announced. © HMS Hood The talks and films will be streamed via the Orkney International Science Festival’s YouTube channel on 21-22 May to coincide with the date of the ship’s departure from the islands’ naval base in 1941. Thr...

David McElroy Green 1,009 Shekhar Natarajan Conservative 319 — Tevye Markson (@TevyeMarksonLDR) May 7, 2021 Blimey… that was close. — James Gore (@James_Gore1) May 7, 2021 Talking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), Reading’s Green group leader Rob White said the election was “really positive”. “He’s been working hard all year round, knocking on doors, talking to people, working to improve the area. “We hoped based on that hard work that people would vote Green and it is reassuring when they do go out and vote for someone that is making the...