Wimpey is to build more than 150 homes in Haringey, after landing a pounds 6m contract. The homes for rent will be built in Palace Road and Perth Road for a consortium of housing associations and should be completed next year.

A new Labour council has awarded itself a 40 per cent pay rise. Councillors in Haringey, north London, made the extra money their first executive decision. Labour, which has 57 of the 59 seats on the council, raised the attendance allowances.

A gay man who claims he was sacked for being HIV positive and is suing for wrongful dismissal believes his former employer, Haringey council, is delaying proceedings so he becomes too ill to fight the case.

Stella Doritis being helped into a polling station in Haringey, north London, yesterday after a promised ramp failed to arrive. She travelled on a Dial-a-Ride bus, which arrived at 2.30 as ordered. 'I was offered a postal vote but wanted to go myself,' she said

How do you make schools better? By combining external scrutiny and in-school commitment, hard-headed analysis, thorough planning and inspiration. Or so London University's Institute of Education will argue when it launches a School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre later this year.

A MOTHER who had a history of mental illness killed her children after a council took no formal steps to remove them from her care despite knowing that they were at risk, an Old Bailey court was told yesterday.

A police constable was attacked by a pitbull terrier when he stopped to question two men on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London. The men were taken into custody but the dog ran off.

A man from Haringey, north London, was charged last night with the attempted murder of Detective Sergeant Bob Window, 39, whose hand was severed during a house search. Peter Gilchrist, a warehouseman, will appear before Haringey magistrates today. Surgeons were hopeful that they had saved DS Window's hand.