Latest Letters

  • Service with a bleep
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • I REALLY prefer dealing with a human being – especially first thing – rather than a machine. So, why is Tesco, in Stroud Green Road, now not starting...
  • Our centre is in danger
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • I AM writing to alert readers to the impending destruction of Highbury Roundhouse, which has served residents of all ages and all walks of life over the past 37...
  • Banning towpath cyclists will give us a nice, safe park
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • IF, as rumour has it, Hanover Primary School children really did design the vanishing arch at the new £200,000-plus Danbury Street bridge canal entrance...
  • Pushed for cash
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • IN the face of funding cuts to services for disabled children and their families, we were lucky to have been the last people to have been allocated a Maclaren...
  • Free-for-all is cheaper
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • CONSIDERING that Betty Harris is an ex-teacher, it is particularly mean of her to begrudge the large numbers of children who will benefit from the free meals...
  • Bathroom blues
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • HOMES for Islington – the council’s housing agency – has denied me a decent new bathroom during the recent redevelopment of Centurion Close...
  • Repairs or better care?
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • YOUR article about the future of Finsbury Health Centre (Saved! Health centre set to remain open, September 3) made incorrect reference to the replacement centre...
  • As Con-Dem cuts bite, it’s up to everyone to join fight
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • IT is to the newly-elected Islington Labour council’s great credit that it has promised to resist the cuts. So it is a real disappointment to me, as a...
  • Will ‘superchief’ be able to run two housing regimes?
    Published: 17 September, 2010 • ALTHOUGH I seriously doubt the wisdom of Islington Council’s recent decision to engage in the latest money-saving trend of “sharing to save” (...
  • WEE FORUM - As the Pope arrives, a tale of some Cardinal treachery
    Published: 17 September 2010 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON I WAS standing precariously on the high wall which separated our school from St Illtyd’s Roman Catholic Church, Dowlais, South Wales. It was...
  • Job-shares on agenda
    Published: 17 September 2010 I AM delighted to see Caroline Lucas MP advocating political job-sharing as “incredibly sensible”.  Liberal Democrats such as myself, Baroness Scott and...
  • Housing crisis will hit us all
    Published: 17 September 2010 WHY does everyone seem to miss the thrust of what is going on in UK and has done over the last 15 or 20 years? The supply of social housing is outstripped by demand and...
  • Families so vulnerable to the cuts
    Published: 17 September 2010 OUR seven-year-old son Nathan has Down’s syndrome and attends a local mainstream school and is integrated well with his peers.  This would not have been...
  • What do you think of Boris’s bike schemes?
    Published: 17 September 2010 HAVE you hired a Barclays Cycle Hire bike to get around London or cycled down one of the mayor’s new bright blue cycle superhighways?  If so, the London...
  • Co-operation the way to clear drugs from Soho
    Published: 17 September 2010 OVER the weekend a major operation was undertaken by the police to address the menace of the street drug trade which has proved to be such a problem for Soho residents....