Latest Letters

  • Why St Giles needs trees
    • I AND my neighbours are appalled at the imminent felling of eight semi-mature established trees (mainly plane) in St Giles High Street.  They are important as part of the setting of the...
  • Action for residents
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • FOLLOWING the successful public meeting at St Marks, the North Mayfair Residents’ Group is now officially up and running.  We have formed an interim...
  • Why are our children forced to bear brunt of belt-tightening?
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • WE all knew that a period of belt-tightening was on its way, but why are children in Westminster bearing the brunt of the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat...
  • Profiteers gain at expense of all the ‘couch potatoes’
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • OBESITY among children in Westminster (‘Obesity is killing our kids’, June 11) should be looked at in the broader context of western leadership values of...
  • When will US pay for our big oil clean-up operation?
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • WHEN are America and her companies going to pay for the clean-up of Devon and Cornwall resulting from the break-up of the Torrey Canyon in 1967.  They have always...
  • U-turn on academies?
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • WHEN I was campaigning against the school at which I was teaching, Islington Green, becoming an academy back in 2007, I wrote to the then Lib Dem education spokeswoman...
  • Cuts recipe for disaster
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE plans to slash staff numbers at stations around the Emirates Stadium are alarming to say the least.  Finsbury Park station is one of the busiest in London...
  • Turning the flotilla tide
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE Tribune’s recent articles on the Gaza aid flotilla illustrated a lack of insight into the Israelis’ and Palestinians’ plight. The Israelis have...
  • Curb street drinking
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • IT is good to know that residents in Clerkenwell have backed plans to introduce a designated public place order so that police can control the consumption of alcohol...
  • Still council tenants
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • MANY residents will be somewhat confused by the continual reference within Homes for Islington’s (HfI) latest newsletter to “HfI’s tenants”....
  • Future clear as mud
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • A WHOLE lot of stuff has been said in the past few months about Archway and regeneration possibilities. I had even heard through the grapevine that a newly-victorious...
  • We check home visits
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • A RECENT anonymous letter questioned the quality of care given by agency staff to elderly and vulnerable residents at home (Checking on carers, June 4) . I was...
  • Apathy as water leaks
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • IT was amusing to think that Boris Johnson might take an interest in a puddle on Highbury Fields (Pensioner asks Mayor to ‘fix’ leak, June 4). But what is...
  • My thanks to angels
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • I WOULD like to give a big thank-you to our local NHS Trust and Islington social services. I was in University College Hospital on Boxing Day with a broken arm but I...
  • Our day of protests
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE Labour leader of Islington Council, Councillor Catherine West, told a packed public meeting last Thursday that the new administration would be doing all it could...