Latest Letters

  • Step-free at station
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • IN last week’s article I was described as chief executive of Finsbury Park Business Forum (Boris ‘taking credit for fall in bus crime’, February 25...
  • Blind spot over cuts
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • I HAVE recently moved to Islington and am more than a little shocked by what the local Liberal Democrat leader seems to be saying in the press. He appears to oppose...
  • Green café memories
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • I WAS interested in the article on Clerkenwell Green (Where small is beautiful, February 25). My uncle had a coffee stall called “Ernie’s” in the...
  • Where is watchdog?
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • LAST week’s article about the conditions in Coral ward at Highgate Mental Health Centre reflects badly on Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, which runs...
  • Why keep press out?
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • A LEAFLET has been handed out to members of Sotheby Mews day centre for the elderly from Age Concern regarding its planned closure on March 31.  I was astonished...
  • Police had to be brought in to clear cuts protesters
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • I MUST contradict the football crowd invaders who colonised the Town Hall public gallery on February 17 (Call for united front after police clear cuts protesters,...
  • What about all the emails against ‘roamer’ parking?
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Paul Smith, Islington’s executive member for the environment, seems to be creating ever more difficulties for himself. Two weeks ago in the Tribune,...
  • Blinkered view
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • YOUR correspondent Chris Fagg (February 24) refers to the British government as “a unelected coalition”. Would that be the same type of coalition that the...
  • Tulip too intelligent for politics
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • AFTER meeting the council’s leisure chief Tulip Siddiq, I felt compelled to write in to share my experience of this young woman. Ms Siddiq conducted the library...
  • Moral Miller
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • ARTHUR MILLER (Review, February 24) had a message for today: “This ripping off of Good and Evil labels from one nation and pasting them on to another has done...
  • Salubrious slogans
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • I HAVE a couple of ideas for phrases the new Whittington Health could use as its slogan (Quick-witted, February 24). How about “Whittington Health: Wasting Money...
  • Snookered by the developers
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • I WAS at the recent Camden planning meeting when the Snooker Club in Delancey Street was saved from demolition by unanimous vote of the council – only for the...
  • Thanks for reuniting me with my bus pass
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • LOSING a bus pass is always a nerve-racking experience, even more so when the wallet that it is in contains other important cards.  I would really like to thank...
  • How many are locked up?
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • “SECTIONING” under the Mental Health Act is one of the very few ways people can be locked away without trial in the UK. It is really troubling that an...
  • Save our community hub
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • I AM the vicar of St George’s Church in Queen Square, Holborn. Our church has very close links with Millman Street Community Centre, which the council proposes...