Latest Letters

  • Why is this service singled out for such heavy reductions?
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • THE meeting on the future of our libraries was illuminating.  Residents proposed a raft of measures including volunteering, donation of books and money,...
  • Gimmicks, Asbos, and how to rid an estate of a drug dealer…
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • SO, under Crimbos, having just five disgruntled people ganging up on a neighbour they don’t like, without a process in place to test burden of proof or...
  • We must safeguard our park for future generations
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • THIS week Islington Council met to give its formal approval to a cut of three-quarters of a million pounds to its sustainability budget. That will have an effect...
  • Phone mast campaign is a victory for people power
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • I’D like to thank all the residents who took part in the campaign against plans to put up a 10-metre high mobile phone mast at the entrance to Whittington...
  • TV cabling a fiasco
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • I CAN find no justification for proposals to place TV cabling on the front of the conservation buildings in Pleasant Place, Angel. Furthermore, the proposals to...
  • Hospital beds crisis
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • CAMDEN and Islington Mental Health Trust is consulting on “Changing Mental Health Hospital Services”. The first question is: do you agree that across...
  • Roamer has few friends
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Paul Smith, Islington Council’s executive member for the environment, is on record as claiming that residents’ “roamer” parking...
  • Day centre saved, but...
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • THANK you for the front-page article last week about Sotheby Mews Day Centre winning its battle to stay open. It is great news for the users and those of us who...
  • Estate we love is turning into a pipe-and-wire city
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • I WOULD entirely agree that “Our estate is just great”(Letters, February 11) – that is, until the works were carried out by Homes for Islington....
  • My aim as Champion is to raise status of older people
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • ONE thing that I want to establish as an Older People’s Champion is that “old” is not a plight (‘Elderly mustn’t be forgotten!...
  • Spending priorities
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • AT a time of massive public expenditure cut backs how on earth can Conservative Westminster Council possibly justify the following recent spending:  •...
  • Radical reforms
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • LOCAL authorities have two choices in facing up to the economic challenges: do we dramatically cut the services that matter most to our residents or do we embrace...
  • Why ‘play’ cannot continue in its current form
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • I WRITE in response to Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg’s letter (New attack on play centres and service is mean-minded, February 11). Play services in...
  • We need a battle plan to fight cuts
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • WEST End Extra is to be congratulated on its coverage of the cuts being inflicted on residents.   Readers should be aware of the destructive decisions...
  • Story wrong
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • YOUR front page story (Activists ‘win’ in road signs cash cow row, February 11) is wrong – we have not halted “all traffic enforcement in...