Latest Letters

  • £100,000 elite club
    Published: 12 March 2010 • TWENTY-three executives of Islington Council are paid salaries of more than £100,000, according to a Sunday Times analysis. Islington’s chief executive,...
  • Cut out the middle man
    Published: 12 March 2010 • I AM one of many residents sick of hearing excuse after excuse about exorbitant costs, poor quality work and lack of services (Under-attack homes chief tells critics...
  • Farewell to old estate
    Published: 12 March 2010 • ON behalf of residents, I would like to say a big thank-you to everyone involved in the Market Estate Project, which culminated in the huge event on Saturday. The...
  • Health News - Prime Minister gives personal thanks to nurses for best practise in infection control
    Published: 11th March 2010 by Josie Hinton NURSES at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead made the journey from Pond Street to Downing Street to receive personal thanks from the Prime Minister...
  • So taxing
    Published: 11 March 2010 • TO the elderly white man who told me to f-off back to Pakistan while getting off the 253 bus at Polygon Road, I would just like to say that first I was too civil to...
  • Ringing the changes
    Published: 11 March 2010 • Is something happening to our society? I went into a local jewellers and asked them if I could use their ring sizer. They said I could only use it if I was...
  • Churchyard politics
    Published: 11 March 2010 • I HAVE tried for many years to persuade St Pancras Church (the one on Euston Road, supported by the Grecian Ladies), to open its churchyard to the public, as do most...
  • To let – well-appointed apartments?
    Published: 11 March 2010 • AM I correct in understanding that profits generated by the Crown Commissioners, pass to the Treasury? Therefore, the Crown Estates housing is in public ownership on...
  • Essentials
    Published: 11 March 2010 • WHAT  a difference a local post office makes to a community, when it closed in Robert Street, it seemed all that was left were cars speeding along a desolate road...
  • Freedom at last, thanks to John Gulliver
    Published: 11 March 2010 • I CAN now report that after well over 100 days (as compared with the 10 offered by the Post Office) I have at last received my Freedom Pass. My profound thanks goes...
  • Privatisation
    Published: 11 March 2010 • IT’S plain wrong to say that the Lib Dems have championed NHS privatisation, as Cllr Adrian Oliver claims (Letters, March 4). The local Labour MP, when Health...
  • Payback!
    Published: 11 March 2010 • THE money stolen by MPs recently, should be returned to fund the A&E, and save lives! JON SMITH Dartmouth Park, NW5
  • It’s wrong
    Published: 11 March 2010 • IT’S fantastic that so many people marched in protest of the downgrading of Whittington Hospital,  which must be protected, and surely 5,000 people cannot...
  • Will doctors come out in support of Whittington?
    Published: 11 March 2010 • YOUR campaign to save the Whittington’s casualty unit has been nothing short of inspiring. For thousands to take to the streets in defence of this vital service...
  • A great politician with a socialist conviction
    Published: 11 March 2010 • I CANNOT rest in peace unless I can express publicly my highest regards and admiration for Michael Foot. Not only was he a great politician with strong socialist...