Late yesterday afternoon I went to see the movie Tenet, my first visit to a cinema since lockdown. I emerged from its two-and-a-half hours of “high concept” hokum baffled, a bit bored and wondering what the point was, then switched my phone back on to find it vibrating with the latest plot twists in an […]
Health and safety repairs to the Seven Sisters indoor market, known to some as the “Latin Village”, which are essential before traders there can re-open their businesses are not expected to be complete until October, On London has learned. The news was given to market traders in a recent letter from Transport for London, which […]
In a further sign of disquiet within Haringey Council’s majority Labour group, councillors have voted unanimously for the council’s annual general meeting – called simply the “annual meeting” in the council’s constitution – to take place in September rather than in May next year. That might sound pretty united. But in fact the vote demonstrates […]
Last month, the Ham & High reported a row over the postponement of Haringey Council’s Annual Meeting by a full year to next May. Opposition Liberal Democrats leader Liz Morris claimed the council’s Labour leader, Joseph Ejiofor, had driven through the decision “unilaterally behind closed doors” and that it would have been perfectly possible for […]
A Haringey councillor fired from her cabinet position on the grounds that she had failed to keep the council’s leader informed about a court case involving children under the borough’s protection has expressed pride in the work done during her time in her former role while not addressing the reasons given for her dismissal, saying […]
Haringey Council leader Joseph Ejiofor has fired his cabinet member for children and families, Zena Brabazon, apparently on the grounds that she failed to keep him properly informed about a recent child protection case in the borough. In a statement, Ejiofor said: “The cabinet member for children, education and families is one of the most […]
Back in February, when the coronavirus crisis was just a news item from China, On London carried an interview with five traders from the Seven Sisters indoor market, often referred to as the Latin Village. Long-standing plans to redevelop the dilapidated former Wards furniture store building in which the market is located have, for years, […]
Embattled Haringey Council leader Joseph Ejiofor has hit back at critics of council-backed plans to redevelop the Wards Corner site in south Tottenham. In a lengthy statement published on the council website, Ejiofor, who sits on Momentum’s national coordinating group, hits out at “myths and falsehoods” about threats to the “Latin Village” indoor market currently […]
