Hornsey Journal

• Crouch End Fun Run: Festival details revealed as race looms
  

  With just a few days left before the starting pistol sounds at the Hornsey YMCA 10k and Children’s Fun Run, final preparations are being made for the most ambitious and colourful festival to run alongside it.

• Paper with a personal touch needed for Muswell Hill art project
  

  A new piece of art will capture glimpses of life in Muswell Hill through small scraps of paper – but it needs local residents’ help to be completed.

• Sainsbury’s set to take over Wards Corner store in Tottenham
  

  Negotiations are underway to open a Sainsbury’s convenience store on the controversial Wards Corner site in Tottenham.

• Highgate and Tottenham distraction burglars jailed for 10 years
  

  A pair of men from Highgate and another from Tottenahm have been jailed for more than 10 years for a spate of distraction burglaries targeting elderly and vulnerable people.

• Downhills staff to strike over academy plans for Tottenham school
  

  Teachers at Downhills Primary School will go on strike next week to protest against plans to force the school into becoming an academy.

• Hornsey man jailed for 35 years for ‘brutal’ murders in Haringey woods and parks
  

  The Turkish killer who murdered two elderly men and attacked another five strangers with a wooden “caveman’s club” while stalking parks and woods near his Hornsey home was jailed for at least 35 years today.

• Neighbours ‘heartbroken’ over Tottenham laundry battle
  

  Residents are “heartbroken” after a Tottenham laundry business which has made their lives “hell” was given permission to expand.

• Emergency medic involved in accident in Tottenham
  

  A medic on their way to an emergency call had to be taken to hospital themselves after their car crashed in Tottenham.

• Crouch End surveyor seeks divorce law reform as wife leaves him
  

  A Crouch End man who says his wife must be mad to divorce him has vowed to continue his legal campaign to block her ending their marriage.

• Muswell Hill’s Phyllis celebrates 102 wonderful years
  

  A Muswell Hill woman born days after the Queen’s grandfather ascended to the throne has celebrated her 102nd birthday.