Off to Muswell Hill roundabout for photo op with Friends of the Earth and Living Streets who were presenting a petition to me about the dangerous crossing at the top of Muswell Hill itself.

In fact, I had met council officers about this a few weeks earlier – and things are looking good for the introduction of a crossing. Just waiting for funding confirmation – then we can start arguing about the positioning of the crossing itself.

The officers want it a few metres down the hill so that it is narrower. Everyone else wants it right on the roundabout, because that would suit pedestrians better and is where they would cross anyway. But the officers say this would be more dangerous. So still much to sort out …

Then directly onto a little sub-post office in Crescent Road, Wood Green for a photo op to start our campaign to save this one from closure. It’s just the latest victim in the Labour Government’s plans to ‘rationalise’ our post offices. But it will kill our local parades of shops as well as removing a really vital local service – particularly for older people who like their weekly walk to the post office and who may have tremendous difficulty getting to one further away.