70-year-old Hendon man killed following collision with car in Holders Hill Road
A 70-year-old man who was hit by a car has died in hospital.
Barinder Lal Duggal, of Hendon, was treated by the London ambulance service after he was struck by a car in Holders Hill Road, at the entrance of Hendon Cemetery, on Thursday, January 12.
Police attended the scene around 6.10pm and Mr Duggal was taken to hospital, where he condition deteriorated until he died on Saturday (January 28).
Barnet will receive three times less funding than Islington and Enfield from NHS for seven-day GPs
Barnet is set to get three times less extra money than other London boroughs for a new seven-day GP service, despite being the largest in London.
General practitioner doctors’ services are set to remain open seven days a week under a new NHS initiative set to roll out in April.
However, it has been revealed Barnet is set to gain only £1.90 in extra funding per person, while Enfield receives £5.42, Haringey gets £4.75 and Camden gets £3.78.
Barnet has become the first ever UK council to adopt an official definition for anti-Semitism.
The borough has recently been subject to a spate of prejudiced hate crimes and attacks, including a woman being pelted with eggs and a brick thrown through the window of a family home.
Following motions put forward by Labour leader Barry Rawlings and Conservative Edgware councillor Brian Gordon, the council now defines anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) guidelines.
Labour figures warning of massive cuts to schools disputed by Conservative-controlled Barnet Council
Labour councillors have warned Barnet schools could be set to lose funding up to £497 per pupil.
Their word of warning comes from figures the opposition group calculated from the new National Funding Formula, cash freezes on funding per pupil and a 75 per cent cut to the Education Services Grant.
According to Barnet Labour’s numbers, schools will lose £23,181,571 by 2019, the equivalent of 622 teachers.
Around 15,000 Barnet residents come from countries affected by Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
This weekend, the US president issued an executive order freezing travel to America from the Muslim-majority counties Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.
Due to the number of Barnet residents who originate from the seven countries, the Labour opposition group at the council filed an emergency motion to discuss how they will be affected.
A young woman who started a project to stop youth violence after her childhood friend was murdered has been named on an internationally-recognised power list.
Forbes magazine’s ‘30 Under 30’ names 300 young people who are making waves around the world in ten categories including business, technology and media.
Temi Mwale, who grew up on the Grahame Park estate, Colindale, was named among 29 other social entrepreneurs across Europe for her work as founder of the 4Front Project.
A man has been sentenced to almost seven years in jail for conspiracy to burgle despite having come out of jail only six months before his new offence.
Calvin McKenzie, of Station Road in New Southgate, was hit with a serious crime prevention order (SCPO) when he was released from jail after in October 2015 serving for burglary and theft.
The 36-year-old appeared at St Albans crown court on January 20 in connection with a burglary at a home in Smallford, St Albans in March last year – which breaches his SCPO.
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