• Creating positive change among charities

  By Golden Giving at 17:30 on 08/05/13

  

  Golden Giving (www.goldengiving.com) is a donation and fundraising website, free to use for charities, donors and fundraisers. We are the only independent free fundraising and donating site in the world that helps worldwide charities and good causes. Golden Giving removes the business cost and provides the tools required by charities to provide online donation and fundraising services. Over £1 billion was donated to charity...

• Rundown nightclub to be transformed into student accommodation

  By poppy_smith at 10:42 on 30/03/13

  

  A rundown nightclub will be turned into high-quality student accommodation as part of Tottenham's regeneration, councillors agreed last night. At a meeting of Haringey Council's planning committee, proposals to demolish the building in Chesnut Road, currently used by the Opera House nightclub, and replace it with 64 student apartments were approved. The building's beautiful 19th Century Italianate façade will be restored in...

• Benefits fraudster who illegally claimed more than £100,000 is jailed

  By poppy_smith at 13:50 on 22/03/13

  

  A benefits fraudster who illegally claimed more than £100,000 has been jailed after an investigation by Haringey Council. Dolonescu Dumitru, 33, spent more than five years fraudulently claiming housing benefit and income support from his home in Harringay Road despite previously being deported in 2006 by border officials. The Romanian came back to the UK and claimed benefits until June last year using an out-of-date certificate...

• Nursing team wins prestigious Royal College of Nursing Award

  By poppy_smith at 10:23 on 19/03/13

  

  Haringey's Joint Learning Disability Partnership Nursing team has won the National Nursing Standard Award for a new nursing model they have developed around caring for adults with learning disabilities. They were announced winners at a ceremony hosted by TV presenter, broadcaster and journalist Fiona Philips on Tuesday 12 March at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with key figures from the nursing and healthcare profession in...

• Two arrested for dumping commercial waste at recycling centre

  By poppy_smith at 11:31 on 13/03/13

  

  Two men were arrested earlier this month when council officers and police caught them dumping commercial waste at a council recycling centre. Businesses are not allowed to use the free recycling centres to dispose of business waste as they should pay for a commercial waste disposal contract. Council officers have long suspected that some businesses, particularly those offering waste clearance services, use the recycling centres to...

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