Category: Palmers Green

Laiki’s UK customers escape levy

Post author By Suzanne Beard
Post date April 2, 2013
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The BBC and national newspapers are reporting this afternoon that 15,000 UK customers who have accounts in credit at the UK arm of the Laiki Bank will escape the bank levy being imposed in Cyprus.

Laiki has four branches in the UK, including the flagship branch at 246 Green Lanes, which saw long queues in mid March. Laiki had sought to reassure UK customers that their deposits were safe and this now appears to be confirmed. Customers who are concerned or wish to discuss their personal circumstances to should contact their branch for further information.

Under the EU bail-out, Laiki and other bank’s customers in Cyprus stand to lose 60% of any deposits greater than 100,000 Euros. However, reports say that UK customer’s deposits have been moved from the Laiki bank to the Bank of Cyprus which, because it is fully registered as a UK subsidiary, is covered by the UK compensation scheme.

For more information visit

Marfin Laiki Bank http://www.laiki.com/web/w3uk.nsf/WebContentDocsByID/ID-D38D9DAE3DABFFA980257B30004837C9

Art and Culture Palmers Green

And another thing – new local debating forum launches

Post author By Suzanne Beard
Post date March 28, 2013
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A new debating group holds its inaugural meeting next month.

Organised by Winchmore Hill’s Sharon Nayyar, Enfield Debaters aims to provide a friendly and sociable environment in which local people can meet up to share their thoughts and ideas. The aim is to provide a forum for challenge, debate and collaboration.

The plan is to hold monthly meetings – topics can be political, social, environmental, fashion, historical, or even comical. There will be guest speakers and the emphasis is on creating a social atmosphere with drinks and food.

The topics for the first debate are

Are men now the fairer, weaker sex? Discuss
The Housing Benefit Cap is for the greater good. It will encourage people to return to work and should be welcomed by Enfield. Discuss

Nothing controversial there then!

Enfield Debaters’ first meeting is at the White Hart in Southgate on Sunday 14 April – proceedings kick off at 1.30.. For further information visit http://www.meetup.com/The-Enfield-Debaters/

Community History Palmers Green Planning and open spaces Uncategorized

Broomfield House options under review

Post author By Suzanne Beard
Post date March 20, 2013
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The rejection in January of the Heritage Lottery Fund bid for Broomfield House was a temporary setback, not game over, say the groups behind the proposals.

Further discussions with HLF have revealed that the application may in fact have been a near miss – it was supported by London HLF officers in Round 1 of the process, and only rejected at the national stage due to the number of other applications and availability of funds.

The bid is understood to have scored highly on heritage and community and the close relationship with Enfield Council but, in the form submitted in October, was a higher risk than HLF was willing to accept. Friends of Broomfield Park and the Broomfield House Trust are now looking at options for a way forward. At update will be given at the next Open Meeting of the Friends of Broomfield Park on 8 May -(7.30 at the Ruth Winston Centre).

‘Seen against the long history of attempts to at regeneration [the setback is] not a fatal one,’ said Roger Blows of the Trust and Laki Marangos of the Friends in a joint letter to the Enfield Advertiser last week. “The latest proposal is the most encouraging to date.” The Broomfield House working group has called on Enfield Council to remain steadfast in its commitment to the future of the house.

One thing is for certain, if there is to be hope for Broomfield, a huge fund raising effort will be needed, and that means support from the Palmers Green community.

For the latest information, visit http://www.broomfieldhouse.org/index.html

Food Health History Palmers Green Shops Uncategorized

Horse with repetition

The recent controversy about horse meat in various products is nothing new apparently.

In his book, Southgate and Edmonton Past, Graham Dalling tells the story of the outcry in 1941 when it was discovered that meat roll served at local British Restaurants (run by the Council) had been adulterated with horse meat.

Investigations showed that the Council’s catering officer was also in possession of unfeasibly large supplies of custard powder, probably intended for the black market.

Police swarmed the Town Hall at Palmers Green and there were calls for the entire Council to resign. They didnt, but the catering officer was successfully prosecuted.

Palmers Green Planning and open spaces Uncategorized

Dreaming of spring, laughing children and boats

Post author By Suzanne Beard
Post date March 15, 2013
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The boating pond in Broomfield Park lay drained of water at the weekend, exposing its concrete bottom. The lake was created at the instigation of Thomas Melville of Old Park House, who served on Southgate Urban District Council for many years and was its chair during the war. It was known for some while locally as Loch Melville.