Latest Letters

  • Learn lessons from bikers’ battles with bureaucrats
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THIS week the No To Bike Parking Tax Campaign finally has a public hearing at the High Court over the imposition of charges for powered two-wheelers to park in...
  • Sainsbury’s supporter
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I’M glad that the new Labour administration has decided to continue the council’s Shop Local campaign, which started under the Liberal Democrats. The...
  • Look out for artwork
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • READERS may be interested to know that today (Friday) marks the beginning of Islington Exhibits, a 10-day exhibition extravaganza that brings together over 300 artists...
  • Will cuts hit schools?
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • LOCAL Labour politicians have been scaremongering about the government programme to improve local secondary schools – Building Schools for the Future – in...
  • Call halt to Euro-circus
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE constant journeying of the European Parliament, once a month, between Brussels and Strasbourg is a complete waste of time and money – not to mention the...
  • Spiteful coalition
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE previous Lib Dem council opposed free school meals and now the new Con-Dem coalition government has launched its cuts, starting predictably with...
  • Wanted: real experts
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • WE are told Islington Council will now have a Fairness Commission and an “expert committee” to make centralised planning decisions (Action, not more...
  • Paying for cheap flights
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I AM very disappointed. Two weeks ago, we booked flights from London to the French town of Limoges with Ryanair. The cost of £240 was paid by card. At the...
  • Trauma of eviction bid
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • IT is with disgust that I read about widow Elsie Sugerman being threatened with eviction over a gas check (You’ll be evicted, widow is warned, June 18). I...
  • Say No to demolition
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I WENT to the meeting on Monday night about St Aloysius College. Why on earth would you build an L-shaped room when everyone knows a classroom should be...
  • On trail of my aunts
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • MY father, Alec Rider Fincham, died in 1965 having never spoken of his family. Now, in my early 70s I am trying to research his family and early years. He was...
  • Victim or aggressor
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • TWENTY-four years ago I was still living in Israel and I didn’t notice that we Israelis were “under attack from Arabs and Palestinians for 24 years...
  • ‘Hotel’ was just magic
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • IT was good to see the review of the amazing Electric Hotel (‘Hotel’ wins extended stay, Review, June 18). What did not come across was how hard the...
  • Too genteel in the library
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • THE other night I attended a talk by Rachel Cooke of the Observer at the Heath Library about the problems of the changes made in the borough’s libraries. She...
  • How can the Town Hall chief accept her bonus?
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • THAT Camden’s chief executive, Moira Gibb, should be getting a £15,997 “performance bonus” on top of her £199,961 annual salary...