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The Write Stuff | rivierawriter: Rivierawriter - Added:November 30, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "The Victorian painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, faced a different test. When Lizzie Siddall, his model, lover and, later, wife, overdosed on laudanum, he was distraught. Before she was buried in Highgate cemetery, he touchingly laid the manuscript of an unpublished book of his poems in the coffin beside her, implying that “Without you my poems are worthless”. But when, some years later, Rosetti decided he would like to publish the poems, rather than write all them out again, he had Lizzie’s coffin exhumed, took out his poems and buried her again, remarking that she was still as beautiful as he remembered."

Crouch End Broadway stunt just a Joly bit of fun: Hornsey and Crouch End Journal - Added:November 30, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "CROUCH Enders stood baffled as a man screamed and shouted into a baby's pushchair, did a back flip and climbed onto a phone box in a busy stretch of high street."

Burglars in the spotlight for new crackdown: Hornsey and Crouch End Journal - Added:November 30, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "The borough has the fourth best rate for detecting and solving burglaries at 20 per cent."

Council spending plans for 2009/10 move forward: Haringey Council: Haringey Council website - Added:November 26, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "The release of detailed department by department proposals for the coming financial year was approved by the council’s Cabinet last week.

These pre-business plan reviews (PBPRs) will now be discussed with residents, tenants, businesses and partner agencies, and will also be examined in detail by the council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee"

The rotten borough of Haringey? | News: Evening Standard - Added:November 25, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "AS HARINGEY council prepares to debate the Baby P affair for the first time on Monday there is a sense that the borough's elected leadership is struggling to grasp the enormity of what has happened."

Retail round-up: what the Sunday papers said on November 23, 2008: Retail Week - Added:November 25, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "The Observer's response to the story was to go into the field, to Muswell Hill, where it reported that shoppers were shunning the retailer."

3.5 million for transport improvements (From Times Series): Times (Series) - Added:November 25, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "The Mayor of London has announced a £3.5 million grant to improve transport in the borough next year. £60,000 will pay for improvements to the East Finchley urban footpaths, which stretch from the North Circular to East Finchley tube station."

Thousands of litres of council fuel disappears | Hampstead and Highgate Express: Ham & High 24 - Added:November 21, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "Gallons of Camden Council fuel have evaporated into thin air - with authorities clueless as to what happened. Diesel oil, believed to amount to thousands of litres, has disappeared from the Whittington Estate in Highgate where it was being stored. Council officers are carrying out their own probe after police investigations ended without result. The problem for council investigators is that they have no idea how much is missing and how it disappeared."

TAB members to deliver "Baskets of Cheer" for the Holidays! - Highgate Public Library Blog: Highgate Public Library Blog - Added:November 20, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "This Holiday season, the Highgate Teen Advisory Board has decide to spread a little Holiday Cheer to our local elderly residents. On December 13th, 11 TAB members will be delivering their ”Baskets of Cheer” across town. They hope that each basket will contain baked goods (baked by the teens themselves), a homemade Holiday decoration and a book or two."

Post office counter bid near shut branch - Muswell Hill Journal: Muswell Hill Journal 24 - Added:November 20, 2008; 1 link; Discuss; From the article: "Talks are ongoing about opening a post office counter in Alexandra Park Library - near to the spot where an ill-fated branch shut in June. Anger greeted the closure of Alexandra Park Road post office in June this year with residents inundating newspapers with messages about it. It was one of six branches to be axed in Haringey."

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