Latest Letters

  • So proud of parades
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • MAY I congratulate you on the excellent coverage by writer Terry Messenger and photographer Andy Barker of Remembrance events (Honouring the fallen, November 19)....
  • Pensioners miss out
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • I WAS interested to read Terry Messenger’s report on households in Islington who will lose money in the government spending cuts (Coalition spending axe...
  • Memories of the Aggie
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • THE Business Design Centre first opened its doors in October 1986, and next year therefore marks the 25th anniversary of its conversion.  I am writing a book...
  • Give ’em a meter
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • I DO find it shocking that people living in council properties are unable to control the amount and timing of the heat they use and to pay for it accordingly....
  • Celebrity surprise?
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • I WAS looking forward to the lights switch-on at Highbury Barn – until I read that this year there might not be a local celebrity but an Islington councillor...
  • Driven to protest
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • ENVISAGE the scene at the council offices in Upper Street, Islington, at the corner of Laycock Street, the other Wednesday just before 4pm. Seeking to purchase...
  • Recycling backed by fines, a solution we can’t ignore
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • I WAS more than a little dismayed to read your negative piece about the council’s plans to introduce compulsory recycling (£110 fine if you fail to...
  • Hospital parking charges will hit those less well off
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • WHITTINGTON Hospital Trust’s parking plans are arbitrary, presumptuous, disproportionate and unreasonable.  It is not the business of an NHS trust, a...
  • We use this cash or lose it
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Arthur Graves is wrong to oppose the Archway regeneration plan (Police and schools first, November 19). He is either misleading the public or...
  • A park not a car park
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • HAS anyone noticed how many vehicles are routinely parked in Waterlow Park? Six, seven? Are they strictly necessary because they are spoiling the tranquility of...
  • Giving in to gambling
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • THE government is proposing to double the maximum stake for gaming machines to £2 and to allow each arcade to install more machines.  It is shocking...
  • Wedding fever mounts but will the monarchy survive?
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • CONGRATS Wills, but do we need a monarchy? Swoon, fawn and grovel is not the name of a bunch of solicitors for Cameron and Co. It’s how the media have...
  • FORUM: Study now, pay later... or never
    Published: 26 November, 2010 by MALCOLM GILLIES Student loans risk creating a new sub-prime scandal, with debt write-off becoming a hidden tuition fees subsidy. But is this good policy OUR...
  • Best wishes
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • THANK you for your friendly report on the Charlotte Street Association’s 40th birthday celebrations (November 19). For the record our current chair is Bertie...
  • Art history
    Published: 26 November, 2010 • I WRITE in response to the article on the St John’s Wood Art School (Review, November 12). I am 91 but, at the age of 16, I was a student at the school in...