In March, parents were furious at news that a school for disabled children would suffer “shocking” budget cuts.

Barnet Borough Council announced that Mapledown School, in Claremont Drive, Cricklewood, would face cuts of £45,000 to its disabled play activities in the same year the authority cut council tax by £7.40 per household.

But at the end of the month, parents were relieved when councillors agreed to give the activities a stay of execution for another year before reviewing the situation in 2015.

March was also the month when shoppers in Temple Fortune launched a petition calling for Barnet Borough Council to “listen to the people” and bring in 30 minutes of free parking on the high street.

Loretta Paterson, owner of Temptation, in Finchley Road, said she was “fed up” with losing customers because of parking problems in the area.

A grandfather paid tribute to the “angel” who saved his life after he collapsed with a heart attack as they passed each other in the street.

Jasvantkumar Patel was riding his bike through Hendon when he collapsed.

Fortunately Sarah Gardner, who had left her house in Finchley Road, had finished a first aid refresher course the previous day and the 26-year-old was able to save his life.

A man turned his flat into stunning scenes from across the world by painting a Venetian landscape in his toilet, the temples of Guatemala in his living room and an Egyptian tomb in his bedroom.

IT worker and artist Simon Edwards, 43, spent the best part of 10,000 hours of his spare time over 13 years creating detailed murals in every room.

After buying the house in 1994, he and his wife Jo spent £1,000 turning the “bland, magnolia” property into the capital’s most charismatic home.