Latest Letters

  • Yes please
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • SAD to see that Denis Hodgkinson does not think that AV is a change worth voting for (Yes or no dilemma, April 7). Far from being cynical or a way of giving any party...
  • No thanks
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • I AM voting against AV on May 5 as it is a ruse to get the Lib Dems more seats in parliament.  The Liberal Party and its child, the Liberal Democrats, ceased to...
  • Have a care with street rubbish
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • THE government has asked councils not to impose penalties on those who put out their rubbish whenever and wherever they wish to do so. We shall be writing to the...
  • FORUM: London’s big... but also small
    Published: 8 April, 2011 RETURNING to live and work in London after a gap of 30 years has been quite an experience.  I came to St Giles-in-the-Fields last September after 22 years in Sussex,...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘as i please’
    Published: 8 April, 2011 by Illtyd Harrington The old Marie Antoinette school of economic theory    I MET a friend the other day who seemed in the throes of that obscure...
  • Let ’em pay for shindigs
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • I WAS appalled to read that Islington Council has paid in excess of £2,000 for ten senior directors and legal advisors to attend an awards ceremony at the five-...
  • Lure cyclists off towpath
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • IN recent years the Regent’s Canal towpath has seen a rapid increase in the number of people using it. This is good news for the health of those enjoying it and...
  • Spend more on arts during depression
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • STEPHEN Poliakoff and your writer Peter Gruner are right to criticise the destructive cuts in arts funding in Islington (Poliakoff criticises theatre funding cuts,...
  • Bring this hideous tower down gently, from the top
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • IT’S not a case of “Tower move will devastate community” (Tribune, April 1), the long-suffering community of Archway has for decades been devastated...
  • Post-treatment cut has left my wife feeling vulnerable
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • IT must be an impossible task for hospital bosses to decide where to make cuts in the services they can afford to offer their patients.  The support offered to...
  • Protect our small shops
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • ISLINGTON Council is investigating whether planning permission can be given for a Budgens supermarket in the small shopping centre at Campdale Road, Tufnell Park. The...
  • Ban second homes
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • WHAT links the Beaux Arts building, Northview and Clerkenwell’s Charles Rowan House – and probably Highbury Roundhouse and its adjacent land (Letters,...
  • All hail the yellow bus
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • I WAS very surprised and heartened by the support shown for the yellow PlusBus, both by the Tribune and our champion for older people, Virginia Low (Can’t shops...
  • Thanks for clean sweep
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • YOUR report claims that long-serving street cleaners and rubbish collection workers are being “phased out” in favour of cheaper agency staff. I would like...
  • Homeless hotel stay?
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • WE are a campaign group who are in the process of writing a book about accessing social housing in Westminster.  We want to hear from any homeless applicants who...