Latest Letters

  • Centre can be saved for less than you’d pay for small flat
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • THANK you for your report (Rally to save Highbury Roundhouse, September 17). The venue is one of Islington’s oldest community centres. We have been...
  • Put chief on half salary
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • NOW that we seem to have established that Islington only needs half a chief executive we can see how much the role is worth to us. John Foster’s replacement...
  • Why was I rejected?
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • HAVING had my recent offer to serve on the Homes for Islington board for free ignored by said body, I have now failed to reach the interview list for Islington...
  • WEE FORUM - The Blitz - St Anne's Church Thanksgiving Service, Sunday (September 26) - Father David Gilmore says "This is a time to remember, not a time to apportion blame"
    Published: 24 September 2010 SEVENTY years ago, on September 24 1940, St Anne’s Church and the people of Soho experienced the reality of war at first hand.  The world had been at war...
  • Councillor, you’re a volunteer
    Published: 24 September 2010 • PAUL Dimoldenberg uses inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation in an attempt to undermine the Conservative council in Westminster (Volunteers plan a cloak for...
  • Meddling with park!
    Published: 24 September 2010 • BEACH volleyball in Horse Guards Parade is going to be a great spectacle and we are excited that the buildings and parks in old Westminster will be the backdrop to...
  • Elderly to make way for children
    Published: 24 September 2010 • ELDERLY residents in Pimlico are being moved out of Greenwood Court to make way for large families against the objections of neighbours.  Westminster City...
  • Young are paying price for blunders
    Published: 24 September 2010 • WESTMINSTER City Council is planning a 545 per cent increase in charges for holiday play schemes and a 360 per cent increase in the cost of after-school play...
  • So long, Soho, I’ve been pushed from place I love
    Published: 24 September 2010 • ON October 3 2010, my family – my partner, myself, our 15-year-old daughter and our dog – are leaving Soho.   After living here for over 16 years...
  • Why Vince Cable should not get into bed with Rupert
    The desire of News Corporation to buy the 61 per cent of pay-TV operator BSkyB which it doesn’t already own goes straight to the heart of arguments about media plurality in a modern...
  • If Labour can’t lead the protest against cuts, who will?
    Published: 23 September, 2010 EDITOR'S COMMENT THE Labour council is walking on eggshells. Faced with the withdrawal of government funds for specific projects, Labour feels it can do nothing else...
  • True cost of cutting housing benefits
    Published: 23 September, 2010 LEGAL EYE – RICHARD STEIN FROM April next year many of Camden’s poorer residents will be facing the prospect of having to move out of the borough and out of...
  • As they start to cull pensioners, may my neighbour Nell rest in peace
    Published: 23 September, 2010 ILLTYD HARRINGTON: ‘AS I PLEASE’ THIS is a requiem for old Nell. I watched day one of the Liberal Democrat conference with a terrible sense of déj...
  • Corn shock
    Published: 23 September, 2010 • HOW many people choked on their coffee on reading the cooking column headline “Polenta of things you can do with a corn on the cob!”? (It’s...
  • Post Office run down?
    Published: 23 September, 2010 • IT is very nice to see that Royal Mail are now opening longer and even extending opening hours till 8pm on a Wednesday according to the “Sorry you were out...