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Published: 11 February, 2011
• I HOPE the library consultation truly will cover the whole borough.
Often in the library debates of the past, the people who have lobbied hardest in the...
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Published: 11 February, 2011
• DAN Carrier’s article (The future’s in library users’ hands, February 3) made reference to Labour’s “form” in seeking to close...
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Published: 11 February, 2011
• LABOUR has been trying to bring a school to our area for four decades – it’s no wonder, then, that parents have now taken matters into their own hands...
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Published: 11 February, 2011
• I WAS disappointed to read your News In Brief (Girls’ school plan approved, January 20).
It is misleading and factually incorrect.
First, I would like...
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Published: 11th February, 2011
• A BOY is killed by an unsafe wall, a father is killed by hazardous electrics, and a child is sexually abused by a taxi diver working for the council’s...
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Published: 11 February, 2011
• I READ the brilliant report by Sunita Rappai about revolutionary Cairo (February 3) with anxious joy.
I taught English language and literature at the...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• IT was good to see Neil Kinnock, a former Labour Party leader and now a local resident, signing the Islington Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS) petition...
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Published: 4th February
• KNOWING how principled and compassionate council leader Councillor Catherine West is, I am shocked at this council’s treatment of elders at Sotheby Mews in...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• THERE is a great deal of discussion, both nationally and locally, about pay.
The Tribune reported (January 14) that Professor Richard Wilkinson said after...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• RESIDENTS and businesses have wanted it removed ever since it was built, and for the past 16 years it has also been the policy of Islington Council and Transport...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• AS you might know, there is a new Prime Minister and that means a new government. That government is making a few changes that not too many of us are fond of. It...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• THE 21st-century idea of a “virtual psychiatric hospital” to take over the 100-plus hospital beds that Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust wants...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• THE Conservative-led government is proposing to slash the legal aid budget such that those who cannot afford to pay for legal advice will be denied access to...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• WHEN it comes to allegations of fraud, the issue of whether they are investigated by accountancy firm PwC or Homes for Islington (HfI) is a red herring. Certainly...
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Published: 4th February, 2011
• I HAVE just received the latest issue of Islington Life. The lead article on the front page informs me that Islington Council has managed to save £36million...