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-tf-SSL Aiu JA wa jtLJ -I 1 VlrtO lF44 -0 -a iQ-CVENXNO STANDARD MONDAY MARCH 4 1914 our LONDON pleted towards the end of next year Mr Lewis said the limitations in the existing John Barnes building and lack of car parking in the area would make it unvlable when its Brent Cross branch opened But campaigners say that the closure of John Barnes coupled man of the retail store group has told the campaigners that lie oan see no point in meeting a deputation which would argue against the closure The company hopes to transfer staff and customers from- the 74-year-old store to Brent Cross when a huge luxury shopping centre there is com MORE than 1000 North London residents have signed a petition urging the John Lewis Group not to close its John Barnes store in Finchley Road Swiss Cottage But Mr Peter Lewis chair with a trend of small essential shops closing in Hampstead to make way for luxury shops means old people and famines without cars would have to travel to the West End to do their weekly shopping Convenience The decision seems to be based on the outdated assumption that shoppers will continue to prefer travelling longer distances by car to choose from a wide range of goods rather than go to a local store where convenience and a reasonable choice are the said Mrs Enid Wistrich Labour GLC member for Hampstead film award Gut-price homes rush A BIG RUSH from newlyweds is expected for newly built cut price homes under a sponsored home ownership scheme run by a South London council Die scheme launched by Sutton Council provides a variety of flats and houses on the Croydon border at Rich mond Road Beddington The prices range from as low as £6550 for a one-bedroom flat Disabled better off in capital By ALAN MASS AM A DISABLED person Hying alone In London Is very much better off than one living In the provinces He or she is more than four times as likely to have a telephone installed by the local council And almost eight times as likely to have his rent paid for him This anomaly is reported today by Mr Duncan Guthrie director of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases He aims to draw attention to the different ways local authorities have responded to the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970) Mr Guthrie said: are concerned that In the new authorities (those following local government reform on April 1) file level of support should start at the very best evel of their former constituent parts The Act calls upon local authorities to carry out the obvious but mammoth task of finding out how many disabled people there are in any area and what are their special needs Its philosophy is that as far as possible disabled people should be allowed to stay in their home environment Mr Guthrie sold the difference In application of the Act was so diverse that if you had an accident last year in one area you could end up living -with vor family whereas If you had it in another area you could end up permanently in a hospital bed Travelling help IN A BID to gain better understanding with nurses from other Common Market countries Josephine Smith nursing officer in charge of Whipps Cross Homdtal's intensive oare unit at Leytonstone has been awarded a Churchill Memorial Travelling Scholarship to spend six weeks in Kurope studying training and specialist work of nurses The fact that we collected over 1000 signatures outside John Barnes on two Saturday morn ings shows the strength of feeling for preservation of the store if only a few of the more popular departments were retained in the store this would be an enormous help to Mr Tony Clarke a member of Camden Council and until last Friday Labour parliamentary candidate for Hampstead wrote to Mr Lewis asking him to meet a deputation Expensive "The closure of John' Barnes is just another step oh the path this 1 part of London is taxing towards shopping centres filled with boutiques antique- shops and expensive restaurants rather than shops people want and Mr Clarke said Mr Lewis said the closure was carefully considered and he could not see the point of further discussion But I think thkt is the end of it We will show him that there is enormous pressure for the retention of the facilities which John-Barnes THE EARL of Pembroke's film about blind babies at the Sunshine Homes at Xorthwood has -won a gold statuette at the Chicago International Film Festival- writes Vivien Batchelor The Earl (above) who has made a number of films said I have received the statuette by pest It is known as the Golden Hugo and is the top award for a short documentary understand it is the first time a British-made documentary has- received this The film is called What Colour is the Wind It has al- ready won a diploma at the Melbourne Film Festival and was first shown in this country on BBC-2 The Earl whose seat- hi at Wilton near Salisbury is shortly off to America to make a full length feature film on the Dallas Tolire Department He has 'on' release a full length film Cove which stars Donald Fleasence and Veronica Qullligam- Trading stamps to solve paper crisis By GEORGINA WALSH A LONDON businessman believes he has the key to solving the waste paper crisis Mr Geoff Bradley plans to rent corner shops and give away trading stamps in return for bundles of old newspapers magazines and cardboard packets Mr Bradley who runs a waste paper warehouse in Drysdale Street Shoreditch already moves 100 tons of waste paper a week mainly from City firms and sells to paper mills for recycling And he raises about £500 a week towards research into child blindness Mr Bradley 41 wants to get even more money for the charity he has devoted nis life to since eye surgeons saved the sight of his son Ricky It has prompted him to look at the Mid of waste paper collection used by local authorities The whole thing is futile-The dustcart has a little trailer attached and into it go all the cardboard boxes which no one botliers to flatten It is not long Row over flats TENANTS of Ilarwood Court in Upper Richmond Road Futney which Is owned by former Transport Minister Ernest Marples are seeking a conrt injunction to stop building work which threatens their vines Mr Marples plans to convert some of the flats Into luxury apartments and tenants of furnished accommodation have been sent letters giving them notice to quit ILEA spends THE ILEA Is spending £346000 on improvements to fire alarm systems IS schools over the next three years to a maximum figure of only £9225 for a three-bedroom ed hquse Altogether there are 161 homes which are being offered at between 15 and 30 below market value Their low cost has been made possible says housing committee chairman Councillor Edward Trevor through the fact that they have been developed council-owned land which was before the trailer is mostly with and little is gained from the he said demoralising then for the housewife who has neatly bundled her papers to see them thrown into the dustcart and mashed up -with the rest of the rubbish plan is to get hold of some little shops at commercial rents all over London and eventually all over the country housewife will be able to carry her papers a short distance in her shopping bag This is using the lorry principal of never going one way empty And she makes the gain will give one trading stamp per pound of paper The load of shopping that a housewife often carries is around 301bs So on that basis she can get 30 stamps for 8 colours 395 acquired many years ago at way below present market He said: Already there are dozens of young couples who are desperate for one of these homes and I am sure that when file scheme is completed we shall have hundreds of people eligible and wishing to purchase Those eligible are council or Srivate tenants living in the utton borough those on the housing waiting list or deferred list (the latter comprises those who have not yet got sufficient points to qualify for rented property) and young couples either married or Intending to get married Councillor Trevor said: plan to put up 100 similar properties a year in the Sites are already earmarked at Roundshaw Estate Wallington on land at Belmont Hospital and former sewage works land at Hackbridge Strict conditions are imposed to prevent the new owners making quick re-sales for hand-same profits The first three houses will be completed at the end of- March Homes await GLC Yes THE Greater London housing development committee is being asked to approve proposals for more than 700 new council including 383 in Sfinstead Road Hertford and 185 In Swains Road Merton The other sites are at Bromley Islington and Southwark A Trees in mind EAST FINCHLEY Neighbourhood Association are to set up a tree protection committee The sheer delight of the fully transparent 'Can tree? range 6 sizes 11 colours 7Sp Take Cover Do it with any of the 2 hundreds of tights stockings and body tops from our Hosiery department designed to cover you beautifully Tiinkinn itJones Stylish opaque tights A beautiful body top 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