Latest Letters

  • Pappano will be back…
    Published: 16 May, 2011 • YOUR review of the Royal Opera House production of Tosca stated that this was the final production of musical director Antonio Pappano and that this was his final...
  • Digital TV challenge
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • CAMDEN council have decided, without taking any notice of the concerns of residents of Camden, to go ahead with a hugely expensive Integrated Reception System (IRS) to...
  • Grateful for the barrier
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • IN response to your Leader on the Grafton Road traffic barrier (Fine fiasco as forest of road signs lead to confusion, June 2) it is important that it is well known...
  • Cut the pay of senior teachers and heads
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • I HAVE several teacher friends and they work extremely hard as, I also understand, do their teaching assistants for the education of our young people. I realise that...
  • Reports of attacks by foxes
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • WITH reference to Julia Jakoby’s letter (Foxes don’t eat kids, do they? June 9) she posed the question as she rebuked a local resident for his projected...
  • Archives important for us all
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • ARCHIVES are a luxury according to Sabrina Francis (Letters, June 9).  They are not, they are essential to any civilised society that is not to suffer from a...
  • What a shameful way to treat us elderly people!
    Published: 16 June, 2011 • THE luncheon club I have been attending for more than  25 years is due to close in March next year, and with the demise of the meals-on-wheels service in December...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Humanity is lost in the budget balance sheet
    Published: 16 June, 2011 IS there a link between the council’s policies on libraries and the meals-on-wheels service? On the surface, there does not appear to be a linking thread. But,...
  • FORUM: We must ensure every child matters
    Published: 16 June, 2011 IT’S time to reclaim education for our children. The charter enshrines education as a universal and inalienable human right and affirms the public provision of quality...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 16 June, 2011 MY grandmother’s judgment was calculated to strike terror into what she considered my seven-year-old black heart.  My grandfather, unlike the rest of us, was an...
  • FORUM: Poor way to solve housing crisis
    Published: 10 June, 2011 SO Grant Shapps MP thinks it is a “no brainer” to evict council and housing association tenant families in London who between them earn £100,000 a year....
  • Is this treasured old master safe in the NHS’s hands?
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • SIR Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727-1788) was one of the greatest of English 18th-century portrait painters. His works are valued in millions.Most of us could ...
  • We’re doing what we can to protect our small shops
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • I am delighted the Tribune has chosen to give some coverage to the issue of small shops in Islington and the character they give to the area (Sir John champions shops...
  • Just get rid of gyratory
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • WE need action on the Archway gyratory issue, not more fine Labour words. Councillor Paul Smith has been quoted as saying that “the council has to make sure that...
  • Bleak future for trees
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • THE felling yesterday (Thursday) of two magnificent London plane trees in Richmond Avenue, Barnsbury, marks a bleak day for Islington’s street trees. ...