Burglary rates are falling, insist police

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Burglary rates are falling, insist police
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26 August 2009
POLICE insist soaring rates of burglary insurance claims are at odds with the borough’s falling break-in rates in crime-hit streets.
Hornsey and Crouch End were named and shamed as the second most risky areas to live in the capital according to the number of insurance claims filed last [...]

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Please your palate at Harringay Food Festival

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Please your palate at Harringay Food Festival
7:00am Friday 14th August 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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Haringey is London’s top burglary ‘hotspot’

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Haringey is London’s top burglary ‘hotspot’
5:09pm Thursday 30th July 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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Community’s helping hands leads to green award

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Community’s helping hands leads to green award
12:54pm Monday 27th July 2009
By Elizabeth Pears [...]

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20mph zone plea for kids’ safety

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20mph zone plea for kids’ safety
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31 July 2009
HARINGEY Council should clamp down on thundering traffic by cutting speed limits along a “narrow residential road” from 30mph to 20mph, say campaigners.A petition signed by 240 residents has been gathered by Liberal Democrat councillors Karen Alexander and Carolyn Baker, demanding the speed reduction in narrow Wightman [...]

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Punter robbed in bookies raid

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Punter robbed in bookies raid
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23 July 2009
ARMED men burst into a bookmakers, threatened staff and robbed a customer of cash and mobile phones in an early-morning raid.The men hit the Coral bookies in Green Lanes, between Hewitt and Seymour Roads, Harringay, at 8.30am last Wednesday, police said.
The men, described as black and aged between [...]

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Police urge assault woman: “please make contact”

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Police urge assault woman: “please make contact”
12:20pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition

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Design A “Beyond Zone 1″ Poster Competition
If you enjoyed the Transport Museum’s Art of the Poster exhibition and are a dab hand at design yourself then you’ve got just over 3 weeks left to enter the Poster Design Competition which is being run by the Museum, TFL and the London Design Festival.
The brief is [...]

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Abduction fears after girl, 10, is chased in street

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Abduction fears after girl, 10, is chased in street
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02 July 2009
A 10-YEAR-old girl was chased down the street by a man in what is thought to be the fifth case of an attempted abduction since April.
Worried parents fear being kept in the dark about the attacks – seemingly carried out by the same man [...]

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Ring main tunnel extension hits ‘breakthrough’

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Ring main tunnel extension hits ‘breakthrough’
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19 May 2009

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By Alison Anderson
THE extension to the giant water main beneath London hit a major milestone this week as the new northern section broke through to the original main shaft from its starting point in Stoke Newington.
The 2.8 mile extension runs from the West Reservoir in [...]

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