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  • More primary pupils miss a fifth of their lessons

    More than 500 primary school children are "persistently absent" from Haringey schools and missing more than a fifth of their lessons. And the number is rising. Government figures released last week reveal an increasing number of younger pupils

  • Project to tackle youth crime launched

    Young people in Haringey are to be given help to turn their lives around. Government minister for children and young people, Beverley Hughes, visited the borough on Tuesday to meet youngsters who had left behind a life of crime. She

  • Teacher suspended for 'racial stereotyping'

    A supply teacher has been suspended following allegations of racism while working at a Haringey secondary school. Nigerian-born Adeniyi Kolade, of Montrose Avenue, Edgware, upset one of the pupils in his Year 7 class when he allegedly referred

  • Appeal on anniversary of shooting

    The mother of a man murdered in Hornsey two years ago is appealing for his killers to turn themselves in. Jerome Vassell, 19, was shot in the head in October 2006, in the car park of the West Indian Cultural Centre in Clarendon Road.