January The eventual winners of the bid to secure the 125-year lease for Alexandra Palace, Firoka (Heythrop Park) Ltd, revealed ambitious plans, including a leisure complex with a hotel and casino. The latter aspect of the plan was dropped the following month.

* Two dustbin bags crammed full of cannabis were found outside Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone's home in North Grove, Highgate. Ms Featherstone was being interviewed on BBC News 24 and Sky when she was called by her assistant to tell her that builders had stumbled upon sacks filled with the illicit drug.

She denied they were anything to do with her.

* Haringey Council was found to have issued more unfair parking tickets than almost any other local authority in the country with 83 per cent of appeals against tickets being won by the motorist, according to the National Parking Adjudication Service.

* Former teacher Elwyn Durant appeared in court after allegedly being found in possession of more than 123,000 pornographic images of children. Durant, 52, of Hillfield Avenue, Hornsey, taught at Greig City Academy/St David and St Katherine for more than 20 years until his arrest in 2004. He was charged with a further count of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 16, and sentenced to three years in jail in May after being found guilty.

February Four gang members who clubbed Romanian Eugen Breahna, 26, to death in January 2005 were jailed for life for his murder. Mr Breahna was ambushed in the back of an ambulance near Bounds Green Tube station during a turf war between Romanian gangs over a cash machine scam. He suffered horrific head injuries after about 20 gang members battered him to death with golf clubs and baseball bats.

* Plans to turn the derelict Hornsey Central Hospital, Park Road, Crouch End, into a community health centre were announced. It was promised building work would start this year. However, work was later postponed until April 2007 - much to the irritation of many residents.

* Muswell Hill police officer Elizabeth Kenworthy received a High Commendation from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair for helping to save two lives in the July 7 bomb attacks.

PC Kenworthy was off duty when she was travelling in the third carriage of the Circle Line train when 22-year-old Shehzad Tanweer blew himself up. Instead of fleeing for safety, PC Kenworthy administered first aid to wounded passengers.

* The Haringey Health Report 2005 Growing Up In Haringey revealed a postcode lottery, with a boy born in Tottenham expected to live five years less than his Muswell Hill-born counterpart. For girls, the difference was three years. The mother's health during pregnancy and environmental factors after birth were cited as vital reasons for the differences.