Barnet Council has successfully prosecuted a shopkeeper for selling vapes to an underage teenager, resulting in a penalty of nearly £2,000.

Dr Rizwan Manzoor Hussain, of The Lindens, Friern Park, was caught selling a vape to an underage teenager at Vape City London in Finchley during a routine inspection by council officers.

Barnet Council has appointed Naisha Polaine as Executive Director of Growth to lead some of London’s most ambitious regeneration programmes.

The council has one of London’s most ambitious growth strategies, with major development and regeneration schemes taking place in neighbourhoods across the borough, including the new £8bn net zero Brent Cross Town.

To mark World Mental Health Day, Thursday 10 October, Barnet Council has launched a new mental health and wellbeing strategy designed to promote the mental wellbeing of children and young people.

The strategy was created following consultation and engagement with residents, youth and parent groups and using insights from national and local data.

This month marks one year since the council officially opened its revamped CCTV control room following a £2.3million investment in expanding and upgrading the borough’s CCTV network to clamp down on criminal and anti-social behaviour.

Leader of Barnet Council, Cllr Barry Rawlings, said:

“Today, it is one year since the terrorist attacks of 7 October in Israel.

“We remember the immense loss and grief experienced by so many in Barnet’s Jewish community. And the pain of the hostages and their families - those killed and those still in captivity who must be released.

Barnet Council is publicising an information gathering exercise being led by The Greater London Authority (GLA) on identifying places where new housing could be built.

This will form part of what is known as a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) in the LAND4LDN project as part of the new London Plan to meet the needs of a growing population in our capital city.