The Welsh Government funding is provided through the Cardiff Capital Region Regional Transport Fund 26/27, with the goal to make local transport more accessible for everyone and help people get around more easily.
The funding is in addition to the £603,000 set aside for the project within the council’s highways and engineering 2026/27 capital programme agreed by cabinet on March 18.
The council says that the scheme is a key part of Cardiff Capital Region’s five-year Regional Transport Plan, and that it will help to improve connectivity in the north of the Cynon Valley to support the area’s long term growth.
The Cynon Gateway Link Road is a 1.2km link road that will connect the A4059 Aberdare Bypass to the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road.
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The aim is to strengthen north-south transport links between Llwydcoed and Penywaun, improve access across the area, and help ease congestion on local routes.
The scheme also forms part of wider plans to improve transport connectivity and support economic growth in the Cynon Valley.
As the council has continued to work on the scheme in recent years, AtkinsRéalis was appointed in September 2025 to support delivery of the project. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here.
In February 2023, the scheme was put on hold due to the Welsh Government’s roads review but in August 2024 it was announced that revised plans were being drawn up with a view to going ahead with it.
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Councillor Andrew Morgan OBE, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and cabinet member for infrastructure and investment, said: “This is positive news for Rhondda Cynon Taf and especially for the north of the Cynon Valley.
“The Cynon Gateway Link Road is an important project that has the potential to improve connections, tackle long-standing transport challenges and support future investment in the area.
“We welcome this significant £2.01m from Welsh Government and Cardiff Capital Region, which builds on the council funding already committed to the project for 2026/27.
“It means we can continue moving this major scheme forward and keepup the momentum behind a project that is important for local communities and the wider regional economy.
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“Over the last decade, the council has made substantial investment in highways, transport and wider infrastructure right across Rhondda Cynon Taf.
“We’ve taken a long-term approach because we know that good infrastructure matters. Whether that is maintaining roads, repairing structures, delivering flood alleviation, improving active travel, or developing major future transport schemes like this one.
“Our investment programme has grown substantially over the past decade, and that continued commitment is helping us deliver the improvements our communities need now while planning properly for the future.”
Police are assisting with a road closure while the vehicle is recovered
A major Cambridgeshire road has been closed after a lorry overturned at a roundabout. Police were called at around 6.30am today (March 24) to reports of an overturned lorry on the A47 roundabout near Guyhirn.
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Officers attended and are assisting with a road closure on the roundabout, which connects the A47 to the A141, while the vehicle is recovered. Cambridgeshire Police has confirmed that there were no injuries.
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We were called at 6.27am to reports a lorry had overturned on the A47 roundabout near Guyhirn.
“Officers attended and are assisting with a road closure on the A141 while the vehicle is recovered. We advise motorists to avoid the area. No injuries were sustained.”
Traffic monitoring site, Inrix said: “A47 Westbound closed, queueing traffic due to accident, an overturned vehicle involved from A141 March Road (Guyhirn Roundabout, Ring’s End) to B1167 Wisbech Road (Thorney).”
Despite achieving historic scores and taking control of over 60 municipalities in the French local elections, the far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, RN) will be disappointed by its failure to make a breakthrough in the larger towns and cities. The headlines coming out of France after the second round of elections on March 22 tell of the resilience of the mainstream centre left and centre right, whose candidates held on to every major city hall in the country.
The two parties that dominate France’s political extremes – the far-right RN, led by Marine le Pen and Jordan Bardella, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed, LFI) – made some gains in smaller towns. But they failed to capture a single one of the large cities.
This matters because France goes to the polls again in 2027 to elect its next president. The local elections were widely seen as a dress rehearsal – and the results expose the limits of both parties’ strategies. For the RN, the failure to break through in cities such as Marseille and Toulon — combined with the refusal of the centre-right Les Républicains (LR) to enter into alliances with RN candidates — shows that, for the far right, the path to the Élysée Palace remains highly complicated.
For LFI, a similar inability to translate national prominence into local power raises questions about Mélenchon’s capacity to unite the left ahead of next year’s presidential campaign.
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For the RN, the dream result would have been a win in Marseille. Capturing France’s second city would have been a massive statement of intent. After the first round of the local elections on March 16, however, a victory in the port city seemed unlikely – especially after the refusal of the centre-right candidate, Martine Vassal, to enter into any alliance with the RN.
‘Le grande confusion’: all sides have claimed victory, but there are no real pointers ahead of next year’s presidential election. France 24 screenshot.
Vassal’s decision is emblematic of one of the big lessons of these elections: the centre-right LR has resisted the temptation to ally itself with the far right, even where doing so might have delivered local power. The centre-left mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, drew his own red line, refusing to merge his electoral list with LFI. He still held on to his job comfortably, winning 54% in the second round, well ahead of the RN’s Franck Allisio on 40%. The double refusal in Marseille – the centre right rejecting the far right, the centre left rejecting the radical left – encapsulates the resilience of the political mainstream in France’s major cities.
Battle for credibility
While taking Marseille was always going to be a long shot, the RN had invested heavily in winning back another important port city on the south coast: Toulon. This is the city where in 1995 the party, then called the Front National (FN) and led by Marine Le Pen’s late father, Jean-Marie, made a historic breakthrough, taking control of the council. This was the first time the far right had captured a major French city since the second world war.
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But the FN mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, endured a disastrous time in office. He fell out with his own city councillors and in 1999 ended up quitting the party after a spat with Le Pen (père). The failure to manage Toulon city council (Le Chevallier scored less than 8% when he was up for reelection in 2001) became an albatross around the party’s neck for many years to come.
As we have argued in our research on the RN in local government, overcoming this reputation for incompetence has been an important goal for all the party’s mayors elected since 2014. Recapturing Toulon would have been highly symbolic. But the RN candidate (and current MP) Laure Lavalette, despite leading after the first round, eventually fell short with 48% in the runoff against centre-right incumbent Josée Massi.
The result shows the enduring power of the front républicain: the tactical alliance of voters from across the political spectrum to keep out the far right.
No clear path to victory: RN leader Marine le Pen and party president Jordan Bardella campaigning in Paris, February 2026. EPA/Yoan Valat
Nevertheless, RN supporters could console themselves with some important victories in smaller towns across the south including Carcassonne, Menton and Orange – another municipality originally captured by the party in 1995. The RN also held on to the vast majority of the towns it was already governing, several of which it won outright in the first round. This includes Perpignan, still the largest town run by the party. In these established strongholds, RN mayors have worked to normalise the party’s reputation and professionalise its approach to local governance.
The success of this strategy is shown by the re-election of the longstanding mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, Steeve Briois, with a commanding 78% of the vote in the first round. His success seems to have had a kind of “coattail effect” across the former coal mining basin in France’s far north – with RN victories in a number of neighbouring towns. The consolidation of a solid block of RN-run municipalities in northern France, alongside those in its traditional heartland of the south-east, is one of the most striking outcomes of these elections.
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Signs of things to come?
Yet arguably the most significant result for the far right came in a battle between former allies on the centre right. In Nice, France’s fifth-largest city, Éric Ciotti – who broke with the centre-right LR in 2024 to ally himself with the RN ahead of the legislative elections – defeated his former mentor, the outgoing mayor Christian Estrosi.
Ciotti’s victory raises an uncomfortable question for LR. Even as the party nationally held the line against allying with the far right, one of its most prominent former figures has demonstrated that crossing that line can be electorally rewarding. Whether Ciotti’s path remains an isolated case or becomes a template for other ambitious centre-right politicians will be one of the key dynamics to watch as the 2027 presidential campaign takes shape.
These local elections confirm that the RN’s road to the Élysée runs through a France that is not yet willing to hand over the keys. However, the cracks in the adherence of some significant political figures to the front républicain, cracks which became visible in Nice, even if not yet spreading to voters at large, suggest that “not yet” may not necessarily mean “never”.
Paratroopers are “poised to go to the Gulf”, the Guardian reports, as talks remain ongoing between the US and Iran. According to Donald Trump, Washington was in “very good talks” with Iran to end the war, the paper says. Meanwhile, “Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq”, the paper says.
It’s hoped that the location will make pick up and drop off easier for parents
The opening of a new school-based nursery is set to offer families in and around Orton more opportunities to take advantage of accessible and affordable childcare. The new nursery will be based within St John’s Church School at Riseholme. The expectation is that it will open when the new school year starts in September 2026.
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Funding for this new nursery has been provided by Best Start in Life, an initiative by central government which aims to support working families and improve access to early education. Across the country, more than 300 schools have been successful in securing a share of £45 million funding to build or expand nurseries on their sites.
Sam Carling, MP for North West Cambridgeshire, welcomed the news. He said: “Access to affordable childcare is one of the biggest challenges many families raise with me locally.
“That’s why it’s really positive to see the Government investing in Orton to expand nursery provision and create more places close to home.”
School-based nurseries are designed to make daily routines easier for families by reducing the need for multiple drop-offs and pick-ups. The hope is that this approach will help parents who may otherwise be struggling to return to – or remain in – work.
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Mr Carling agreed that creating additional nursery places close to home should be a more effective way of helping parents manage their busy working lives while also ensuring children enjoy access to high-quality early education from a young age.
“School-based nurseries can make a genuine difference,” he said, “helping parents balance work and family life, simplifying the school run, and ensuring children get a strong start in their early years.”
It is believed more than a million parents are now taking advantage of government-funded childcare support. Alongside new nursery places, eligible families can also benefit from up to 30 hours of funded childcare.
Mr Carling said that, as well as funded childcare hours, central government was aiding families by offering additional support, such as free breakfast clubs and action to reduce the cost of school uniforms.
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“Together, these steps are about easing the pressure on household budgets and making sure children growing up here have every opportunity to thrive,” he said.
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The Sun in Saturn is aligned with Pluto, creating a sensible cosmic blend. Dedication comes easily today, so make the most of this.
Taurus, Cancer and Virgo, you may feel you are finally being seen for who you are. Hard work pays off, so keep persisting.
Don’t let the serious tone of the day stop you from enjoying the possibilities that this placement brings. Rely on your drive, and you will prosper.
Ahead, you’ll find all star signs’ horoscopes for today: Wednesday March 25, 2026.
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As the Sun merges with Saturn in your sign, your confidence in your authority can be enhanced. You’re no longer proving yourself; you’re defining yourself. Responsibility is a better fit for you than expected. Aligned with Pluto, your personal decisions ripple outward, reshaping friendships, networks, and long-term goals. You’re fast becoming someone completely new.
Something quiet but powerful is shifting beneath the surface. You’re releasing old fears, habits, or self-limits that no longer serve you, and inner work connects directly to your future direction. What you let go of now creates space for greater recognition later. For now, reflection is productive, and you’ll come up with strategies that both build and restructure.
You’re being asked to commit to goals, friendships, or plans that have staying power. No more scattered enthusiasm, as your influence within groups now grows quietly but powerfully. People will listen when you showcase your leadership qualities. You’re learning which ideas are worth using and which are just conversations. Think long term and collaborate wisely.
Career matters demand maturity, boundaries, and a clearer sense of authority. You’re being taken seriously now, even if it feels slightly daunting. It means shared responsibilities, and you’ll find issues around power also evolve fast. What you create must be honest, not habitual. You don’t need to please everyone; just choose what you want to work at long-term
The Sun-Saturn merger in Aries suggests your beliefs, plans, or big dreams require commitment. You’re learning that confidence grows stronger when backed by discipline. Aligned with Pluto in Aquarius, partnerships and collaborations reshape how you see your future. Power comes from shared vision, so connect with those who challenge you to mature.
You’re being asked to take something seriously, and you’ve already sussed where the weak points are. Daily habits and work patterns are transforming from the inside out. Small changes have powerful consequences now. Your intense focus can be inspirational rather than pouring on pressure. Streamline what drains you and invest in what truly matters, and you’ll skyrocket.
Cosmic messages for Cosmic messages for Virgo today
Libra
September 24 to October 23
Relationships step into serious territory with the Sun in Aries blending with Saturn, so commitments need clearer terms, stronger boundaries, and honest effort. This isn’t about romance losing sparkle, it’s about making it real. With Pluto in the mix, love, creativity, or collaboration shift profoundly. You’re learning what equality means, not just what looks fair.
Does your life need a smarter structure? What you’re aiming for is discipline with purpose, as it will refine outdated work habits. Home life or emotional foundations are transforming too. Old patterns won’t support the future you’re building. You’re learning that power comes from consistency, not intensity alone. Small changes can have a lasting impact on efficiency.
Today’s first Sun-Saturn tie in Aries for 29 years means creativity, romance, or personal projects ask for commitment, not just enthusiasm. Leisure and hobbies become meaningful when you show up consistently. Allied with Pluto, conversations, learning, or personal stories carry power. Your words shape futures, including your own. Choose what you create and communicate with firm intention.
Foundations are under renovation as home or family demand more attention and sound decisions. This is about responsibility that engages with your feelings, not about duty alone. Finances, values, or self-worth are evolving alongside these changes. What you build now needs to feel secure. You’re learning that true authority starts at home, within yourself.
A serious line-up today suggests your choices and commitments are a major focus. What you say now shapes reality, so speak with intention. This is also a time when personal reinvention accelerates. Old versions of you quietly retire as authority grows from authenticity. Discipline becomes a creative tool, not a cage. You’re learning how to steer without explaining yourself.
Reality is calling, and it’s kinder than you expect. With the Sun associating with Saturn, money, priorities, and self-worth need a clearer structure. This is about valuing yourself enough to be consistent. Aligned with Pluto, deep inner shifts support this practical reset as old fears around security lose their grip. You’ll find discipline can be steadying, not limiting.
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The pilots killed in Sunday’s collision between a plane and a fire truck on a runway in New York were two young, ambitious Canadian men that had long dreamed of becoming pilots.
Mackenzie Gunther and Antoine Forrest were operating the Air Canada jet that was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Sunday when it collided with a fire truck. Officials still haven’t identified the two men publicly, but a family member who spoke to The Associated Press and a Canadian college that one of the men attended separately confirmed their identities.
About 40 of the roughly 70 passengers and crew members on the regional jet from Montreal, and two people from the fire truck, were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries. Most were released by Monday morning, authorities said.
“These were two young men at the start of their careers,” FAA Administrator Brian Bedford told reporters Monday. “It’s an absolute tragedy that we’re sitting here with their loss.”
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An investigation is underway into the cause. Federal officials said on Tuesday that a runway warning system failed to sound an alarm moments before the collision, and are looking into the role of the air traffic controllers and what they were doing while juggling a late night emergency involving another plane. The crash occurred during an already messy time at U.S. airports because of a partial government shutdown.
Here is what is known so far about both pilots.
Antoine Forest
Jeannette Gagnier, the great aunt of one of the pilots, identified him as Antoine Forest. Gagnier, who said that Forest looked to her as a grandmother figure, told AP that he always wanted to be a pilot. His LinkedIn page showed he had worked for two airlines the past five years.
Forest’s Facebook page said that he was from Coteau-du-Lac, a small city in southwestern Québec. The mayor of Coteau-du-Lac, Andrée Brosseau, offered condolences to Forest’s family in a translated post on Tuesday from French.
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“Antoine was one of our own. In a community like ours, everyone knows someone who knew him. His passing represents an immense loss for our entire community,” Brosseau wrote.
Antoine’s brother, Cédric Forest, shared a picture of his brother and him when they were kids. “Have a safe flight, my brother! Oh yes, we’ve often heard that phrase, but this time will be the last,” he wrote on Facebook. “You were coming and going in the wind, always full of new projects in mind. Gone again in the wind too soon to say goodbye I love you brother you can leave with your head held high.”
A woman who said she is Forest’s girlfriend and also a young pilot shared a photo of the couple on her Facebook account on Tuesday captioned “the love of my life.”
Mackenzie Gunther
Toronto college Seneca Polytechnic said in a statement on Tuesday that Mackenzie Gunther graduated from its Honors Bachelor of Aviation Technology program in 2023.
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He joined the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program, a training program operated by Air Canada, immediately after graduating. The flight that crashed on Tuesday was a Jazz Aviation plane operating on behalf of Air Canada.
“Seneca sends our deepest condolences to Mr. Gunther’s family and friends, and to his former colleagues and professors. He will be deeply missed,” the school’s post said.
The school lowered its flags to half-staff to honor Gunther on Tuesday.
Some have said it was a miracle that more people weren’t hurt, and at least one passenger Clément Lelièvre credited Gunther and Forest’s “incredible reflexes” with saving his life and those of others. The pilots braked extremely hard just as the plane touched down, he said.
Asked what the fourth official told her after Buurman’s header was chalked off, she replied: “Nothing! Nothing, it is always the same. You go to them and ask them to check the situation and make sure they made the right decision, they just always say ‘we are checking’, but they make the wrong decision.
Even before the US-Israel war on Iran, people in the UK were unusually vulnerable to sudden swings in the cost of energy. Depending how you count it, either 11% or 30% of households are officially energy poor, and already struggled to afford basic needs in times of relative peace.
The government’s fuel poverty strategy for England, published in January 2026, focuses on long-term measures such as home insulation upgrades. But it says little about how to protect vulnerable households quickly in this crisis or in future price shocks.
To reduce the immediate harm, ministers need tools that can be deployed now, not just reforms that may take years to deliver.
Here are three measures that could be deployed right now.
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A social tariff
The most effective step would be to discount energy bills for lower-income or vulnerable households – a so-called “social tariff”.
This is often seen as difficult or politically risky. But energy remains one of the few essential services without targeted affordability support. Water and telecoms already enjoy it, and energy should be no different.
In a policy brief we published late last year, we showed that the UK electricity system hits lower-income households hardest and produces “uneven bills”. This means that two households using the same amount of electricity can face differences in bills of up to 15% depending on where they live, and another 22% depending on payment method or contract type.
Laundry costs more – or less – depending on where you live. Carlos G. Lopez / shutterstock
A social tariff would be fairer. Through a lower unit rate or a bill discount it would protect households with the least room to cut energy use – such as older people, low-income households, those with medical-related electricity needs and renters in inefficient homes.
These policies can also encourage energy efficiency. For instance, in California, the state’s Care programme discounts electricity and gas bills for low-income households up to a set level of use. Beyond that point, rates revert to normal.
This is not unrealistic administratively. Portugal introduced automatic eligibility for its social energy tariff in 2016. This used existing tax and social security data to expand the number of households receiving support by 400%.
The UK already has the data infrastructure to do something similar through its benefits and tax system – energy companies wouldn’t have to find out household incomes themselves; they could just ask the government. The near-term step here is straightforward – ministers could ask the industry regulator Ofgem and energy companies to design an automatic, income-linked tariff for winter 2026, instead of waiting for another crisis response.
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Emergency support
The second priority is to reduce immediate exposure to the most volatile and expensive fuels.
Government has traditionally responded to shocks like the Ukraine war with emergency bill support. However, these ill-targeted policies are impractical and do not reduce reliance on volatile fossil fuels. Unlike a social tariff, which is a continuous means-tested support payment, emergency support is often a one-off payment. Traditionally, emergency support is a flat payment to all households, meaning those on lower incomes benefit less in relative terms, though it can also be targeted at vulnerable households.
Transport is one immediate opportunity. Rather than (yet again) freezing fuel duty, the government could redirect this money into cheaper public transport for low-income and car-dependent households.
Germany’s €9 (£8) public transport ticket, introduced in 2022 during the energy and cost-of-living crisis, shows that governments really can act quickly when necessary.
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Subsidised public transport could help out people struggling with expensive energy. PintoArt / shutterstock
Households that are off the gas grid and reliant on heating oil are especially exposed when global prices rise. Alongside short-term support, like the welcome £50 million announced last week, the government should consider targeted support to switch from oil to heat pumps. The economic case for heat pumps is especially strong for households relying on heating oil. This switch would immediately reduce their exposure to oil prices.
Help households access existing savings
The third priority is to ensure vulnerable households can benefit from money-saving features that are already available in the electricity system.
The near-term priority is not new schemes, but making existing ones usable. The government could require suppliers, local authorities and landlords to prioritise smart meters and other low-carbon technologies in social housing and private rentals, where people face the greatest barriers to accessing these savings. It could also fund trusted community organisations to help households choose suitable tariffs, avoid poor deals and access support if they fall into arrears.
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This may sound less dramatic than a new subsidy scheme, but clarity matters in a price shock. Households cannot benefit from cheaper tariffs or smart systems they do not know about or cannot use, so financial support often flows most to those already best placed to respond.
The UK cannot prevent global energy price shocks, but it can choose who bears its greatest burden. What is missing is political will. If the government is serious about protecting vulnerable households, it needs a strategic short-term response that matches the scale of urgency.
The arson attack on four ambulances in Golders Green early on March 23 has been called “a horrific antisemitic attack” by the prime minister, Keir Starmer.
These ambulances were run for the benefit of both the local Jewish and non-Jewish communities in this district of north London by a charity called Hatzola – meaning “rescue” in Hebrew. As these ambulances played a key supportive role in enabling access to health provisions for the good of all, it is especially shocking – and has further heightened the anxieties of British Jews.
This is a community still reeling after the attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester in October 2025 on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish religious calendar, which killed two people. And the arson attack is part of a wider international wave of antisemitism, which has included Norway, the US and the Netherlands in the past few weeks. This is not an easy time to be a diaspora Jew.
Those who have carried out the attacks have come from different backgrounds. Many have been influenced by online hate emanating from Isis, and potentially individuals or groups supportive of the hardline Iranian regime. Counter-terror police are investigating whether an Iran-linked group is responsible for the arson. The terror group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand) has claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as others in Europe.
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These attacks reflect the complex pattern of hostility towards Jews in the UK, which has been through a mixture of domestic and foreign-inspired hatred. In terms of the latter, there are several examples going back a century which can be highlighted.
The most well-known is the Jew hatred spread by Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists (BUF), formed in 1932, which was at least partly stimulated by German Nazism.
Overall, however, there are deep domestic roots of antisemitism since the readmission of the Jews in the 17th century after a 300-year expulsion. But it has rarely resulted in violent attacks – even if it has made life uncomfortable for the Jewish minority in moments of crisis.
Golders Green’s rich history
These roots can be seen in relation to Golders Green which started to develop as a place of Jewish settlement from the first world war onward. While there were some Jews in this then small suburb in the 19th century, there was not much in the way of a formal community.
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Pam Fox, the social historian of Golders Green’s Jewish community, states that “Before 1910 there was just a handful of Jews living in the community, but by 1915 … there were 300 households”. Growth continued after the first world war, and in 1922 the first synagogue, Dunstan Road, was opened. Today, the Jewish population is around 8,000 and represents some 40% of the suburb’s population.
The first synagogue in Golders Green opened on Dunstan Road in 1922. Erfurth/Wikimedia Commons
Such crude statistics do not reflect the diversity of the Jewish population both past and present. As early as the 1930s, more orthodox Jews, some of them refugees from Nazism, were establishing different forms of worship from Dunstan Road, which was more in the form of mainstream orthodox religiosity. By the second world war, there were at least 14,000 Jewish refugees in north-west London (including Golders Green), who varied from the totally secular, to reform, to the very orthodox.
After the war, there were more influxes of Jewish refugees, including from Egypt, Hungary and later South Africa, as well as second- and third-generation Jews whose origins were from eastern Europe and then the East End of London. While the very orthodox are currently the growing group in Golders Green, it still has an incredibly heterogeneous Jewish population.
For most Jews, the vibrant cultural, social and religious life of Golders Green has made it a very comfortable place to call home. Even so, there has been antisemitism – organised in the form of the BUF and more commonly in the form of more casual prejudice.
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In late 1945, the Hampstead Petition Movement aimed to remove all foreign Jews from the wider area, and it had some local support. In the Nazi era, local newspapers, including the Golders Green Times, objected to the alleged bad behaviour of the Jewish refugees who were falsely accused of being unpatriotic and selfish.
Today, the idea of Golders Green being a Jewish suburb ignores the reality that most of its population is not of that background. It also forgets the many types of Jewishness that are articulated there. Such nuances are lost on those carrying out the attack on the ambulances, with their universal usage.
It says much about the times that such distinctions are not made – many people hold all Jews responsible for the actions of a particular Israeli government. Yet in Golders Green as elsewhere, Jews for both political, cultural and religious reasons hold a range of attitudes towards the problems of the Middle East. Ultimately, such attacks are, as local Jewish resident Sam Adler put it, “cynical and cowardly”. If nothing else, as with Manchester, they have also brought communities together in solidarity and resistance to the ugliness of antisemitism.
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