- MP helps local disabled resident let down by Haringey Council 15 Mar 2010
A disabled woman who has spent a year and a half in the same room without access to normal bathroom facilities has this week got extra support from local MP Lynne Featherstone to make sure Haringey Council delivers on their year-old promise to build her an accessible toilet and shower [...]
- Northern Line closures: 20 months of misery ahead for local residents 14 Mar 2010
Local residents will not be able to use the Northern Line from local stations in Highgate, Archway and Finchley at weekends until December 2011 after tube operator, Tubelines, announced 82 weeks of weekend closures, starting on 27 March 2010.
The Liberal Democrats have launched a petition against the closures, saying that they will affect residents travelling [...]
- Local Liberal Democrats step up the campaign against Northern Line closures 13 Mar 2010
To help raise awareness of the proposed 82 weeks of evening and weekend closures on the Northern Line and to gain further support for their campaign Liberal Democrats have been out collecting petition signatures around Highgate Station.
Lynne Featherstone MP, Highgate councillor Rachel Allison and local Transport spokesperson Councillor Martin Newton spent [...]
- Labour leaflet lies about Hornsey Hospital 13 Mar 2010
Local Liberal Democrats have demanded that Labour withdraw false claims that the party campaigned against the new health facility on the site of the Hornsey Hospital. Lynne Featherstone MP and local Liberal Democrats helped lead a high-profile, decade-long, campaign to get the hospital site back into use. In recognition [...]
- Traffic calming consultation gets green light 12 Mar 2010
Haringey Liberal Democrats are urging residents to take part in a statutory consultation on plans to provide new traffic calming measures and 20mph limits in the Palace Gates area of Alexandra ward.
All households in the consultation area received documents from Haringey Council on 4 March 2010 to take part before the deadline [...]
- Squatters move in after Haringey Council fails to act on empty home 11 Mar 2010
A family-sized home, left empty by Haringey Council for nearly a year, has now been taken over by squatters, despite promises by Housing bosses that it would be brought back into use this month. The property, at 15 Nelson Road, Stroud Green (N8), was occupied last week, three months after local Liberal Democrats raised [...]
- Comment on Whittington Hospital public meeting 8 Mar 2010
Commenting following the public meeting with NHS bosses about the future of the Whittington A&E on Thursday 4th March, Lynne Featherstone MP said:
“Thank you to the hundreds of residents who came out to have their voices heard. The mood of the meeting with clear, 370 against closure and zero for.
“Speaker [...]
- Local MP reads with local school children for World Book Day 6 Mar 2010
To mark World Book Day and to share the joy of reading a good book with local school children, Lynne Featherstone MP visited a special story- telling session at Noel Park Primary.
The Hornsey and Wood Green MP started off by reading ‘The Great Kapok Tree’, about the Amazon rainforest, to [...]
- Liberal Democrats take Whittington Petition to Downing Street 2 Mar 2010
To get the Prime Minister to intervene and stop the Whittington A&E being closed down, local Liberal Democrats Lynne Featherstone MP and Councillor Robert Gorrie presented the Whittington Petition to Downing Street.
The petition has been supported by over 2,200 local residents, with over 1000 people signing it in the first [...]
- Local MP urging residents to come to public meeting on future of Whittington A&E 2 Mar 2010
Local MP Lynne Featherstone is this week calling on local residents to come along to a public meeting on Thursday to hear directly from health care bosses on the future of the Whittington A&E.
The meeting, which is being held at Greig City Academy in Hornsey, N8 7NU on Thursday the [...]
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