Latest Letters

  • Wanted: developers who can breathe life into area
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • THE prospect of an injection of cash to help kick-start Archway’s regeneration is welcome. However, as everyone within the community knows, it will  take a...
  • How long must our secret oasis remain out of reach?
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • THE Olden Garden in Highbury is incredibly beautiful, especially at this time of year. It is an almost secret oasis in Whistler Street, close to the Arsenal Stadium....
  • Railing against use of fund’s £110,000
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • I OBJECT to the use of £110,000 from the Paddington Social & Community Fund for the installation and restoration of railings in Sussex Gardens W2. I am a...
  • Premiere for a Marylebone musician
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • THE English premiere of the haunting cello concerto by British composer George Lloyd (1913-1998) was held in London on Saturday. It was a resounding success and a...
  • Wider successes of The King’s Speech
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • THE article (King’s Speech therapist’s plaque: Grandson of Lionel Logue attends special unveiling on Harley Street, May 27) was great.  As a PWS (...
  • Blood review
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • I WOULD like to address a point made by Dorothy Edwin regarding privatising the National Blood Service (They’re killing our NHS, May 27). NHS Blood and Transplant...
  • Help to others
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • JANET Vance was a friend and an amazing woman who never let her considerable disability get the better of her but always remained positive and forward-looking. I never...
  • Janet Vance
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • ALTHOUGH confined to a wheelchair, due to being a bilateral amputee, Janet Vance was a powerful and loving presence within the St Anne’s congregation where she...
  • Much cheaper route for HS2
    Published: 3 June, 2011 Open letter to the chair of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee  • I NOTE from the local press that you are considering submissions regarding the...
  • FORUM: ‘Fringes’ resettling is unsettling
    Published: 3 June, 2011 by ANDRE ROSTANT MY wife, our eight young children and I have been told that, before January 2012, we must move to “the fringes” of London or further afield,...
  • Best thing is to resign
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • AS Councillor Barbara Sidnell was on the council executive she should have been setting a good example (Expenses probe councillor steps down, May 27). She should have...
  • Why only a school poll?
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • I NOTE that Labour councillors are backing the idea of a referendum before a final decision is made on the possibility of three primary schools becoming academies (...
  • Curbs on kerb litter
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • IT seems the battle to keep our roadsides clear of litter is never-ending.  This situation is not helped by the current legal loophole that lets litter louts get...
  • Still time to ditch tower
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • HERE we go again, another chapter in Arsenal’s history of applying to build something so enormous it will still get away with something bigger than should be...
  • Plea to Old Owenians
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • Dame Alice Owens was initially founded for 30 boys from Islington in 1613.  A separate girls’ school was only added more than two-and-a-half centuries...