Latest Letters

  • Published: 11 February 2010 • CONSERVATIVE councillor Martin Davies (No ‘race against time with issuing freedom passes, February 4) is at variance with the information from your paper and...
  • Published: 11 February 2010 • Bus diversions are not funny. At a public meeting on Monday night with representatives from Crossrail and Transport for London, many vocal local residents expressed...
  • Published: 11 February 2010 • WHEN I was recommended to go  into sheltered accommodation I was confused and I worried about my independence, privacy and freedom of movement.  But after...
  • Published: 11 February 2010  • AS a resident in West Hampstead for over four years I will be directly affected by this development (Residents vow to boycott ‘absurd’ new Tesco...
  • • AS a Tenants’ and Residents’ Association, we have been pressing Homes for Islington (HfI) to install new windows in line with the government’s Decent Homes programme (Double-...
  • • WHITTINGTON A&E must be saved despite some criticism it has received on an internet blog. If complaints are about staff, facilities or equipment, that can be adjusted. But if this hospital...
  • • GOVERNMENT action can have only a limited impact on exam results, but the provision of adequate funding, so lacking in the 1980s and 1990s, is clearly linked to achievement where significant...
  • • A RECENT letter (Price to pay for being warmer in winter than summer, January 29) is the second to state that 21C (70F) is quite hot enough for council tenants receiving communal heating. For...
  • • I WAS surprised to read in Barry Hill’s letter that he thought Aquaterra Leisure was not consulted by Islington Council about the time frames for improvement work to Sobell Leisure...
  • • I WAS shocked to read that police are “not routinely enforcing the 20mph speed limit” (Drivers left to speed in 20mph zones, January 22). Residents have voted at all four area...
  • • IT was inspiring to meet Vince Cable with our local Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Bridget Fox last week, when he came to visit business people. He provided valuable insight into the economy...
  • • THE swingeing increases in transport fares need to be commented on. A weekly bus pass has gone up from £13.80 to £16.60 and a monthly from £53 to £63.80. The single...
  • COUNCILLOR Janet Burgess is right when she says the Freedom Pass is protected, but only if Labour wins the next General Election (Freedom Pass is safe, January 29). Cutting it is just the sort of...
  • • ARSENAL wants to defer, for two years, building the 15-storey housing blocks in Queensland Road because it hopes to get more money from building the private flats in the future when the...
  • • I WAS amazed to read (January 29) that the council propose to introduce even more restrictions to deter both residents and visitors from visiting central London. I have been a resident of...