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Watling Park wins Green Flag award after flood works and new playgrounds

The Burnt Oak park has been awarded the benchmark for the UK's best green spaces reports Leïla Davaud

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Khan launches new plan to ‘reverse the decline in our rivers’

The mayor this week launched a his clean water plan which aims to transform London’s “blue spaces” into swimmable areas where wildlife thrives

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Plan to remove local council influence over NHS health boards in London slammed by MPs

Under proposed health reforms NHS integrated care board members nominated by local authorities will instead be replaced by someone nominated by the London mayor

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Hendon Hall residents relive 1966 World Cup memories with Sir Geoff Hurst

The hattrick hero met the care home residents at a World Cup-themed event reports Leïla Davaud 

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Tories slam Sackman’s ‘political theatre’ over Temple Fortune flags

Opposition leader Peter Zinkin described the MP's intervention as "Labour ineptitude on every level" reports David Floyd

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Cleaning up London’s air pollution could prevent 44,000 premature deaths by 2050

While City Hall has made progress on air quality in recent years the capital still lags behind other UK cities

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Colindale-based police officer charged with rape

Inspector Jason Wu will appear in court tomorrow

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Khan ‘has no remit’ to redraw Barnet’s Green Belt, council warns

The mayor's new London Plan looks set to make it easier for parts of the Green Belt to be built on

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Council set to consult on new borough youth strategy

The local authority aims to make Barnet “a place where young people belong”

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Give TfL full control over driverless taxi trials, ministers urged

Firms including Uber, Wayve and Waymo are seeking approval to transport passengers in automated vehicles in London as soon as this year

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Waste experts warn London Assembly of difficulties faced by councils in tackling fly-tipping

Consumerist culture, inadequate buildings, confusing differences between boroughs and disposal costs all blamed for the problem

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Sadiq Khan urges new PM to forge closer EU ties

The Mayor of London pointed to new research that says re-entering the bloc could boost London's economy by £2.9 Billion a year reports Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

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Barnet MPs remain in government

Sarah Sackman keeps her job at the Ministry of Justice, while Dan Tomlinson stays on in the Treasury while also taking on a new role in the Cabinet Office

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Ministers urged to give TfL final say on driverless taxis as rollout looms

Uber and Wayve are two of the companies hoping to launch automated vehicles in the capital this year reports Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter

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Zinkin worried council is ignoring residents’ concerns over CPZs

The opposition leader called on the Labour administration to "reflect on what on earth we're doing" following negative feedback about parking schemes reports Joe Ives, Local Democracy Reporter

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London Stadium costing taxpayers £19m each year – even before West Ham’s relegation

Stadium boss would “absolutely not” sign current deal with West Ham if it was on the table again but admits City Hall is now tied to for decades to come

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Oversight of AI use in policing must keep up with deployment, Met warned

Concerns remain over whether the oversight of the Met’s use of such technology is sufficient

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Men who came from Spain to graffiti trains in High Barnet sentenced

The four men trespassed across live wires on the Northern Line on Wednesday, 8th July

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TfL urged to do more to tackle tube noise ‘misery’ for passengers

Noise levels on some parts of the London Underground network can reach the equivalent of a helicopter take-off

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Silk Stream project expansion plans approved by Barnet Council

There will now be 227 additional homes built at the West Hendon development reports Joe Ives, Local Democracy Reporter