Latest Letters

  • New team to crack down on anti-social behaviour
    • I WANT to reassure our residents, businesses and visitors that the creation of “neighbourhood inspectors” as part of the modernisation of our street service will actually improve...
  • Centre tests NHS vision
    THE NHS must not be allowed to get away with it. Finsbury Health Centre is iconic, and the NHS will never be allowed to demolish a Grade I-listed building. Today, it is quite capable of building anew...
  • Tried and tested hospitals the victims in rush to set up polyclinics
    • YOUR front-page article (Celebrities join fight to save A&E, February 5) and the letters over the past month show clearly how strongly people feel about the proposals to downgrade...
  • Stop whingeing, and give thanks for Freedom Pass
      • I AM 67 and my wife is in her 50s. She spends about £25 a week on fares so the Freedom Pass is a godsend to retired people (Frail face Freedom Pass ‘obstacle course’,...
  • Tube closures: why not ask what the passengers think?
      • YOUR article on Tube line closures was fascinating (Short, sharp closure will limit Tube line misery, pleads MP, February 5). Here we have two powerful politicians of the same political...
  • Tribute to a poet and anarchist
    • I WOULD like to add my sadness at the death of John Rety.  I first met John in 1962 at the Freedom Bookshop in Fulham.  I was then interested in the anarchist movement and it was...
  • Cross about Crossrail and bus route diversions
    • BUS diversions are not funny. At a public meeting the other night with representatives from Crossrail and Transport for London, many vocal local residents expressed their frustration and...
  • Safety a top concern
    • IMPROVING community safety and tackling anti-social behaviour is one of the top concerns of residents in Westminster.  This comes over loud and clear whenever we speak to residents ...
  • What next F1 racing?
    • As a Camden councillor I and my Liberal Democrat colleagues are very concerned indeed about the ill-thought through proposals for nearly a month of non-stop World Cup screenings in Regent...
  • Twelve days without heat and I’m at end of my tether
    • OUR house (containing seven flats) has been without gas for 12 days. We rely on gas for our heating, hot water and cooking. In other words, no heating for nearly two weeks despite snow and...
  • Checks on repair teams
    • READERS may be interested to know that employees of Homes for Islington (HfI) having access to their homes are not all CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked. As an Islington  leaseholder...
  • Spaceship Arsenal
    •FOOTBALL supporters who think that it is a “beautiful game” seem blind to the noise of police sirens and the mess of smelly, instant transfatty pulp that passes off as food. On a...
  • Buying flat a mistake
    • THROUGHOUT one’s lifetime one makes silly mistakes. There are some things one can shrug off and chalk up to experience, there are other mistakes that are not so easily healed. Buying an...
  • Election U-turn?
    • MANY of us still remember the hullabaloo reported in the Tribune last year when the Lib Dems’ council budget was overturned by the opposition (‘I didn’t nick Labour’s...
  • Our battle is over costs
    • DENNIS Kleinberg suggests that we as leaseholders on the Whitbread estate are resisting major works proposed by Homes for Islington (HfI) because we are miniature property barons and...