Covering a long, thin finger of north London, Finchley stretches from Hampstead Heath in the south to Whetstone in the north. Its emblem is the finch and the name is thought to be a contraction of ...

Derek Phillips gave Margaret Thatcher one of her first breaks in politics. As a member of the selection committee in the North London area of Finchley, where the young, ambitious politician was, in ...

Finchley is a long, narrow suburb cut in two by the North Circular, north London’s great dividing line. The southern part, East Finchley, is close to sought-after Hampstead and Muswell Hill, and ...

In the second of our pre-election series, Rafael Behr returns to the area where he grew up, and finds it hard to imagine it as the Tory bastion it was in the 1980s By the early hours of 2 May 1997, ...

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s old seat of Finchley has been gained by the Labour Party. Labour’s Sarah Sackman took Finchley and Golders Green from the Conservatives, defeating Tory rival ...

Finchley Central's southbound platform is adorned with a piece of history that Londoners take for granted daily. It's a plaque displaying an original 1933 tube map by its designer Harry Beck. Before ...

Voters in Finchley and Golders Green have gone to the ballot box in the general election 2024. A new Member of Parliament is being elected for the Greater London constituency which includes the London ...

Non-league Wingate and Finchley FC, who play in the seventh tier of English football, partnered with AI firm The Big Bang Fair to install the AI coach in an effort to get an edge over rivals. The ...

Naked lady welcomes you to Finchley. Known affectionately by locals as Dirty Gertie or the Wicked Lady, the 16ft bronze statue, with a sword held aloft, stands at Henlys Corner where the A1, North ...