High Street window displays promoting Halloween will soon be replaced with Christmas themes -- and this year there is a £300 prize for the best festive window display.

After requests from residents Barnet Council is carrying out a speed survey in Salisbury Road -- part of the route of the 384 bus service -- to see if it justifies the introduction of a 20mph speed limit.

A go ahead has finally been given by the office of the Mayor of London to the redevelopment of farmland on either side of a lane leading to the privately-owned Whalebones house in Wood Street, Barnet.

Imaginatively dressed scarecrows sitting and standing among the pews added colour and a sense of fun to a weekend of events at St Mark's Church, Barnet Vale, to celebrate harvest festival.

After a decade of discussion and debate about building houses and flats on 14 acres of fields and woods at Whalebones, in Wood Street, Barnet, a final decision is about to be made by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, along with his planning advisers.

A fund-raising appeal has been launched to see if there is sufficient support for a campaign to restore to working order a waterfall and pond in the centre of Highlands Gardens, a small but much-loved public park tucked away in New Barnet at the corner of Leicester Road and Abbotts Road.