Latest Letters

  • Fantastic mayor
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • JONATHAN Simpson deserves a huge cheer for being a fantastic mayor over the past year and making the borough so high profile. It’s a great shame he has to pass on...
  • Wanton damage to tree
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • I LIVE across the road from the recently toppled Indian Horse Chestnut (As trees topple, the Town Hall calls in its own special branch, May 5).  True, this tree...
  • Waterloo idea a non-starter
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • KEN Livingstone’s plans for HS2 display all the hallmarks of political nostrum; they are ill thought out and could easily be rubbished by a political rival (...
  • ‘Out’ lesbian’s ousting from top job undermines Labour
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • I WAS shocked to read about the loss of deputy leader, Angela Mason, CBE, from Camden’s Town Hall Cabinet for no apparent reason, and to be replaced by a...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Labour squabbles leave party tweetering on brink
    Published: 12 May, 2011 ONE thing can be said of a group of politicians who are riven by tittle-tattle and the resounding clash of personalities – they are standing on the edge of an abyss....
  • United on top salary
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • THE Tribune recently carried an article about the salary of Islington Council’s chief executive (Cameron under fire over top salary gaffe, April 22). Contrary to...
  • Wedding day smiles
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • WE are a small group of happy-go-lucky pensioners who held a royal wedding party at our sheltered accommodation in Highbury on Friday. We had two gazebo tents and a...
  • Goodbye to gyratory
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • WE are delighted to see there is cross-party support for sorting out the Archway roads. The quoted cost for returning Archway to two-way traffic is already down from...
  • Easter quiet swept away
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • IT’S an absolute disgrace that Islington Council was street cleaning on Easter Sunday. Not only is the noisy machine a disturbance on a Sunday morning, Easter is a...
  • Keep out of my kitchen
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • HOMES for Islington, Islington Council and National Grid have just about managed to destroy the look of my lovely home and my estate. They have made the estate look like...
  • Tree delay welcomed
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Martin Klute is correct in saying, regarding the plane trees in  Richmond Avenue, Barnsbury, that “It is by no means certain the trees are the...
  • Bill threat to our NHS
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • ANGELA Sinclair-Loutit is absolutely right in saying that the Health and Social Care Bill requires “swift action in mass public protest” as we face the...
  • Jobs loss is body blow for area struggling to survive
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • ON Tuesday, staff at the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), based in Archway, took strike action because they are under threat of losing their  jobs due to an...
  • Challenge is to tackle the inequalities all around us
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • I AM writing to thank the many hundreds of Islington people who have attended one or more of the seven packed public meetings held around the borough by the Fairness...
  • Help the UN to help poorer countries
    Published: 6 May, 2011 • WE must all be pleased that the world is now taking climate change seriously and putting resources into tackling the problem. It is also good that rich and developed...