Enfield Dispatch • 27th November 2025

Enfield ranked among most deprived local districts in England

A major new government report shows the borough’s deprivation levels have worsened considerably over the last decade with growing inequality between east and west, reports Finn Logue and James CracknellEnfield borough is now one of the worst local areas in England for deprivation, new government figures show.Data released by the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government highlight alarming issues of poverty, unemployment and child deprivation, and an exacerbating division between th...

Tower Hamlets Slice • 21st November 2025

Children in Tower Hamlets among most overweight in country | Tower Hamlets Slice

According to new data, more than a quarter of Year 6 children in Tower Hamlets are considered ‘overweight or obese.’


Ten and 11 year olds in Tower Hamlets are amongst the most overweight in the country, according to government data. 


More than a quarter (28.4%) of Year 6 Children in the borough are considered ‘overweight or obese’, the data released by the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) confirms.


Tower Hamlets ranked seventh of 317 local authorities in the country, and seco...

Enfield Dispatch • 5th November 2025

Response to emergency at Sainsbury’s in Winchmore Hill criticised

Witness says staff did not move quickly enough to help customer who needed CPR, reports Finn LogueCustomers looked on in “disbelief” after a woman collapsed and was given no instant support from staff in Winchmore Hill Sainsbury’s.Staff and shoppers were made aware of an urgent incident after a woman collapsed and was left “gagging for air”. It fell on members of the public to deliver CPR and defibrillator shocks to the woman, as staff “carried on serving”.Maria Brezitski, who is a nurse-in-trai...

Dance Policy • 3rd November 2025

‘The air was thick with tension’: How Manchester’s Reggae and Dub Sound System Pioneers Broke Prejudice — Dance Policy

Operating out of a compact and derelict flat in Hulme, Errol ‘Barzy’ Beaumont, Wizzy Dan, and Money Green, barely in their mid teens, built their first sound system by hand in 1974. Inspired by the first-generation Windrush immigrants they saw in their community running tunes from custom built systems, they pooled their hard-earned pocket money together and bought a 30-watt valve amplifier. Built from a combination of coarse sandalwood and gritty determination, ‘Baron Turbo Sound System’ were ea...

3rd November 2025

Ghost of the Guildford Four

On a grey and blustery day outside the Old Bailey Court in October 1989, Gerry Conlon, Carole Richardson, Paddy Armstrong, and Paul Hill walked free, almost fifteen years to the day of their wrongful conviction. Known as the Guildford Four, they were sentenced to life in jail on October 22nd 1975, after being found guilty of murder for an IRA bomb in Guildford. ‘I watched my Father die in a British prison for something he didn’t do’, cried Conlon, arm in arm with his two sisters, a moment immort...

Enfield Dispatch • 31st October 2025

Comer Homes gets digging at Vicarage Farm

The developer has yet to seek planning permission for development of the Green Belt site but has been accused of preparing the area for new homes regardless, reports Finn LogueResidents living near Vicarage Farm claim Comer Homes has begun preparing the site for housing development – including destroying a hedgerow – despite no plans yet being approved.A yellow digger with “Comer Homes” written on it has been photographed on the farm this week churning up parts of a field.It comes after the unau...

Enfield Dispatch • 27th October 2025

Former Reform UK candidate in Enfield quits party after criticising ‘negative rhetoric’ on migration

Neville Watson left Reform UK this month after what he described as “harmful” conversations around migration, reports Finn LogueThe former chair of Reform UK’s Enfield branch has left the party after criticising the political group’s “negative rhetoric”.Neville Watson – a former parliamentary candidate in Enfield who had been Reform UK’s only black chair – left the party this month after what he described as “harmful” conversations around migration.Watson stood as a parliamentary candidate for t...

Enfield Dispatch • 17th October 2025

Pay deal reached with North London pathology staff

The workers from Health Services Laboratory had gone on strike last month, reports Finn LogueNorth London pathology staff who went on strike last month will now receive improvements to their pay, grading system and training.The decision to strike by over 1,000 staff employed by Health Services Laboratory (HSL) has helped secure an average pay increase of 15.4% over two years, along with other policies such as additional annual leave. The industrial action was supported by Unite the Union, which...

The Guardian • 25th June 2022

Ireland’s Tailteann games: forgotten Gaelic ‘Olympics’ that shaped a democracy

In the summer of 1924, Ireland did something extraordinary: it hosted the biggest sporting event in the world that year – bigger, even, than the Paris Olympics.Thousands of competitors and tens of thousands of spectators packed venues around Dublin for an array of events encompassing not only athletics, swimming, horse racing, archery and other sports but also poetry, painting, dancing and sculpture.The inaugural Tailteann games – named after an ancient version of the games last held seven centu...