Latest Letters

  • Not quite 50,000
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • ON page two of the recently delivered Islington Council magazine, Islington Now (annual production cost of around £250,000), there is an article written by the...
  • It’s tough for Labour
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • I WAS concerned to hear about the cuts Labour are already threatening to make to projects like new school buildings and the council’s environment budget. ...
  • Tribune will fix it!
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • THANK you for highlighting the problem of a leaking pipe over on Highbury Fields (Pensioner asks Mayor to fix leak, June 4). As a result of your article I received...
  • Stalin plan?
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • LIKE councillor Paul Convery, I do not know what Stalin has to do with Islington planning procedure (Leave it to the experts, June 4). I do not know that, under Tsar...
  • The first casualties?
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • UNPAID workers such as carers, and people whose mental health makes them most vulnerable to unemploy­ment, are at risk of being among the first casualties of...
  • Cycling opportunity
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • I WAS surprised to find myself described as criticising the plans by the mayor for a cycle superhighway (Safety fears as Boris lures cyclists into ‘canyons of...
  • Drinking in public
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • WITH warm evenings beckoning, our pave­ments are already ringing with the sounds of res­idents and visitors enjoy­ing themselves in the open air. But while...
  • Kids are sweeties!
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • MY daughter went off to the N1 centre with a friend, both 13, they where too early for the shops so window-shopped until the stores opened, first on their list being...
  • Forking out for gates
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • IF you visit the Popham estate in St Peter’s ward, just off Essex Road, you will find that walkways have recently been fitted with very large metal security...
  • Importance of NCH site
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • PAUL Convery assures us his new, centralised, planning committee consists of experts, who will prevent the kind of excessive development that Greens are concerned...
  • A simple and clear design to save NHS trust money
    • IN response to the article on our design work (NHS bosses and their £35,000 logo, May 28), I would like to correct some inaccuracies and update your readers on the outcome of the board...
  • Don’t blame tenants for all the faults in Arundel Square
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • BRENDAN Sarsfield, chief executive of Family Mosaic (FM), is to be congratulated for his prompt action in halting the proposed sell-off of parking spaces allocated to...
  • This is a World Cup of beef-eating countries
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • DENISE Bennett writes about ritual slaughter of bulls at all stadiums of World Cup Finals (Letters, June 4). Slaughter of cows is a source of global warming as it...
  • Thanks to volunteers
    Published: 10 June, 2010 • A BIG thank-you to everyone who attended and helped out with the Age Concern Camden Volunteer Celebration party at the London Canal Museum.  We have over 200...
  • Seeds of a good idea
    Published: 10 June 2010 • WALKING past the proposed site of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation laboratory, Brill Place, I was delighted to see that a suggestion we made many...