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Local News is our Aim THE www.glh.co.uk Professional Sales & Lettings 020 8883 5000 AT COMPETITIVE RATES 020 8444 5222 CARS & COURIERS eastfincleereleafco ARCHER November 2014 No. 252 20p ISSN 1361-3952 where sold A community newspaper for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers. Cricket champs Summer 2014 was North Middlesex Girls cricket team’s best season as they inished the season as Under 11 Girls County Champions. North Middlesex Cricket North Middlesex Girls are Club is at the bottom of Muswell planning to play indoor cricket Hill in Park Road, N8. The girls’ in January, and hope to have team practises each Saturday Under 11 and Under 13 girls’ in the summer from 9am to league teams next summer. 10.30am in the club’s ground. New girls are welcome A number of girls from to join the team. For details East Finchley play for the team contact: nmcc.colts@gmail. and they ran a successful open com. You can follow news of coaching session for girls at the North Midd Girls on Twittter 2014 East Finchley Festival. @GirlsCricket. A winter wonderland at the East Finchley winter Festival 2013. Photo Mike Coles Biggest event of the winter is back By Diana Cormack Plans are well under way for East Finchley’s third Christmas Festival which takes place on the High Road on Saturday 6 December. Starting at 10am, there will be seven hours packed with festive fun. Naturally Father Christmas A new feature to be Leacock. Talent on stage will and his sleigh will be there, launched at noon will be The include brass, jazz and ukulele along with some of his reindeer Great East Finchley Bake Off bands, local rockers Sound of for people to pet from 12 noon to with the judging of the best the Suburb, Finchley Youth 4pm. There will be old favour- decorated Christmas cake or Theatre Dance Group, choirs Silverware: The winning cricketers of the North Middlesex Girls team. ites such as making decorations pudding, possibly by a sur- from Martin Primary School for the festival Christmas tree prise celebrity and The Archer Academy plus last year’s dog show hit, The Lincoln Road fes- along with a pop choir, culmi- Everything Electrical Ltd which will now be in three tival stage will host live nating in a Pat “Have Mercy” categories: festive dogs; dogs performances and activities, Leacock DJ music set. Lighting the way & Making connections since 1995 that look like their owners; all compered by the inimitable Joining in www.everything-electrical.com [email protected] other dogs. duo Chris Hampson and Pat A variety of things to buy, Tel: 020 8444 7994 or Freephone 0800 279 3463 taste or experience will be ALL TYPES OF LED LIGHTING found on the street stalls run by local businesses and charities. 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RSPCA animal clinic 020 8365 3910 National Express 08705 808080 Age UK 020 820 35040 December: 14 November, January: 12 Samaritans 08457 909090 Copy deadlines – Heathrow Airport 0870 000 0123 Contact (N2) 020 8432 1415 December, February: 16 January Refuge Crisis Line 0870 599 5443 Thief gets no change Flu jab Bus diversions from cash scam push extended By Janet Maitland By Daphne Chamberlain You probably wouldn’t be suspicious if a well-dressed Residents who are eligible We’ve heard more about the bus diversions we reported man stopped you in the street and asked if you’d dropped for the free seasonal lu vac- in last month’s issue and it seems we will have the 134 the £20 note he shows you. You’d think he’d have just cination are being urged running along the High Road for at least nine days longer pocketed the money if he wasn’t honest. But what if, to take it up and prevent than expected. the infection spreading when you tell him it isn’t yours, he asks you check your It will not go back to its own that there are now fewer buses wallet, just in case? Would you be suspicious then? Well, through the community. route on 7 November, as origi- on Holloway Road than there you should be. Last year, while 72 percent nally planned. The predicted used to be. of over 65s in Barnet received How the scam works What do your date now is 16 November, Well, there were once three the free vaccine, only a third of and that is weather permitting. bus services running along If you do get your wallet pregnant women in the borough out, all he has to do is snatch local police do The 43 will continue to stop our High Road, from central and only half of people with at Muswell Hill until the same London to North Finchley or it and run. This is an old scam long term health conditions that’s doing the rounds again. It for you? date. Barnet. In fact, I’ve been told such as asthma and heart dis- That is bad news for the that the original pre-Second was tried on a woman on East That’s the theme of the ease took it up. A nasal spray End Road at about 3pm on 26 unlucky people living along World War route of the 134 was November meeting of the vaccination is now available Colney Hatch Lane. Taking through East Finchley. September. However, the thief for children and is a painless bungled the scam. Muswell Hill and Fortis away both their bus routes has So, if you’ve been making Green Association. alternative to the injection. been tough for them, and I’ve the most of our extra buses, tell “I’d just stopped to read- Dr Andrew Howe, Barnet just my shopping bags when Among the topics covered felt genuine sympathy. But their TFL. The website referred to will be local crime statistics, vis- and Harrow’s Director of Public loss has been our gain.