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Published: 4th February, 2011
• ON Friday we went to the municipal offices in Upper Street to buy visitors’ parking permits. When we reached the counter after a 35-minute wait a helpful...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• ANYONE who thinks this round of cuts and redundancies will be the last is mistaken.
If the government gets away with these it will come down even harder next...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• SOME parents and campaigners have been calling for free school meals for every Westminster pupil.
To provide a free school lunches to all, irrespective of...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• WHAT planet is Mark Field on wanting a pay rise (MP against salary clock, January 28)?
“We are all in it together,’’ but Mr Field obviously thinks...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• A WHILE back some councillors seemed keen to take up a suggestion that would earn quite a lot of money and considerably reduce street pollution.
Sadly the...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• I AM shocked by what I have seen at Horse Guards Parade.
I cannot imagine a more dastardly act of vandalism applied to one of Europe’s finest public...
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Published: 3 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: 3 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: 3 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...
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Published: 3 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 the...
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Published: 3 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: 3 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 is...
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Published: 3 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 to...
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Published: 3 February, 2011
• 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: 3 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...
