Latest Letters

  • Left to the community
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • AS the Coalition continues to cut public services we all hold dear, times are definitely going to get tougher. The economy is taking centre stage, and quite rightly...
  • Homes fit for families
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • SINCE May, when Labour won control of Islington Council, one of our key commitments has been to build more family-sized council homes. With 3,000 families living in...
  • Peace in the park?
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • I AGREE with Ian Martin (A park not a car park, November 26). There seem to be more vehicles more frequently in Waterlow Park, not just parked but roaming the whole...
  • Confusing speed limits
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • THEY say our borough roads have 20mph limits. I would  be delighted if it was true. But Transport for London roads and red routes still have 30mph limits. Even...
  • Slap in face for the poor
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • DAVID Cameron’s idea of the Happiness Society will not bring us joy. How can someone be happy to work unpaid? The new policy – working for 30 hours a...
  • Siren wails hard on ears
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • LIVING in the urban jungle of London is never going to be quiet, but wouldn’t life be easier on the ears without the constant background wail of sirens? I...
  • Barred from fees demo
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • I UNDERSTAND  that last Wednesday a large number of older students from Highbury Grove School wanted to go on the student demonstration.  Students at the...
  • Messages of fear
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • I WAS slightly bemused by an article concerning households losing on average £4,000 (Coalition spending axe ‘means £4,000 cuts for every home...
  • Benefit cuts worse than the loss of mental health beds
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • SEVERAL recent letters have criticised iBUG’s lack of response to the proposed bed reduction scenarios at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (Has no...
  • Forget the bin snoopers, just clear away the snow
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • AT a time of recession it is outrageous that Islington Council should even consider the introduction of a bin tax to further harass and penalise hard-pressed...
  • FORUM: New political movement
    Published: 3 December, 2010 by SOFIE BUCKLAND It’s not all hard work in the student occupation, but fighting cuts is a work in progress  THE defining image of the...
  • Cut out the PR stunts
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • AS I walked past the long-closed Marylebone Library the other day I saw at least 10 council and government officials tying a large red ribbon to the front of the...
  • How we will make self-sufficiency a reality
    Published: 3 December, 2010 WESTMINSTER has a goal and vision of becoming self-sufficient. The council no longer wants to be dependent upon hand-outs from central government to pay for the services...
  • We keep clean streets
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • ONCE again Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg has got the wrong end of the stick (‘Clean-up’ plans mess, Letters, November 26).  He states the “...
  • Bad sports policy
    Published: 3 December, 2010 • SLASHING funding for school sports will hit children hard. Westminster school children have been enjoying a surge in sports participation thanks to the resources...