Nursing a hospital to optimum health
	5:45pm Thu 3 Jul 08
	Months after the Government’s healthcare watchdog gave Barnet Hospital a clean bill of health, the debate rages on over how safe it is. TOMASZ JOHNSON asks the woman in charge of the hospital for her side of the story

	Feature: Flood dams go with the flow
	8:40am Sun 29 Jun 08
	A £9 million project completed last month promises to prevent a repeat of the floods that devastated the west of the borough in 1992. TOMASZ JOHNSON finds out how it all works For years, parts of Edgware, Burnt Oak and Colindale suffered from flooding during periods of heavy rain.

	Johnny Vaughan roots for Totteridge
	10:41am Wed 25 Jun 08
	Radio presenter Johnny Vaughan fondly recalled Barnet borough on his Capital breakfast show earlier this month. Reporter KEVIN BRADFORD finds out why the former Totteridge schoolboy still remembers his roots

	Warriors campaign for the wastelands
	6:44pm Tue 17 Jun 08
	BOASTING more than 200 green spaces and woodlands, Barnet has long had a reputation for being one of London's leafier boroughs.
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	A new kind of learning difficulty
	3:12pm Tue 10 Jun 08
	Funding changes by successive governments have left adult education in the doldrums. At one institute in East Finchley, it is society’s most vulnerable members who have felt the crunch, reports Tomasz Johnson.

	Proud to be living with Max
	5:38pm Mon 9 Jun 08
	Watching your child star alongside some of the world’s acting greats in a Hollywood blockbuster would make any parent proud. But Sandy Lewis knew Max had more to prove than most, writes Caron Kemp.
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	How dogs are walking the walkies and talking the talk
	5:06pm Thu 5 Jun 08
	One in seven people in the UK has a registered hearing problem, with more than 650,000 considered profoundly or severely deaf. As Hearing Dog Week gets underway, CARON KEMP discovers how some four-legged friends are helping people live with the condition.

	News focus: Last supper at the Oriental City
	8:50am Tue 3 Jun 08
	As the shutters go down on Oriental City for the last time, RUTH HOLMES finds out what will become of its 800 employees and the community they serve
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	Focusing bodies as well as minds
	8:21am Sat 24 May 08
	With GCSEs and A-levels looming, pupils can be forgiven for associating education with turgid textbooks and interminable essays.

MoD releases the X files

6:07pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

Secret files released by the Ministry of Defence last week reveal its investigations into UFO sightings dating back to the Seventies, including some close encounters in the borough of Barnet. Tomasz Johnson reports. You might think investigations of the paranormal were confined to eccentric conspiracy theorists and agents Mulder and Scully.

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