Latest Letters

  • Vigilance needed to avoid Northern line delays
    Published: 8 April, 2010 • MANY Camden residents have been in touch,concerned about the planned weekend closures to the Northern line, during which upgrades to the signalling system will...
  • Time to roll out a campaign for smarter travel choices
    Published: 8 April, 2010 • FRIENDS of the Earth congratulates Local MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Glenda Jackson who have backed a call in Parliament to bring cheaper and greener transport options...
  • Fill the holes
    Published: 8 April, 2010 • CAMDEN is to be congratulated on increasing the number of places where cyclists can lock up their machines. There is a shortage across the borough. However, the...
  • Poor value
    Published: 8 April, 2010 • IN response to the letters (Communal areas are never done and Caretakers not what they were, April 1), these issues are all too common now front-line caretakers have...
  • Time for a rethink of plan to make this junction safer
    Published: 2 April 2010 ISLINGTON Council is consulting local people on proposed improvements to the Hillmarton triangle junction in Holloway. I believe the council’s proposals for the...
  • MP record admirable
    Published: 2 April 2010 GORDON McIntosh is completely wrong to suggest that Emily Thornberry has “backed almost every piece of anti-terror legislation”. A cursory glance at her voting...
  • Floored by such waste
    Published: 2 April 2010 COULD someone explain to me why, in this time of belt tightening, Islington Council is replacing perfectly sound pavements in Upper Street with expensive, faux York stone....
  • Help pleas ignored
    Published: 2 April 2010 I CARE for an elderly, diabetic lady, who I visit in the evenings. On one occasion I found her panicking as she tried to inject her insulin, because no nurses had turned up...
  • Price of an emergency
    Published: 2 April 2010 I PAID and displayed on a visit to the Whittington Hospital. However, I ended up having an emergency C section, so naturally got a parking ticket. Islington Council ignored...
  • Beaux Arts Building - Foyer flats a sacrilege
    Published: 2 April 2010 I THINK I can speak for most residents of the Beaux Arts Building in Holloway when I say I was shocked to hear about the planning applications for more flats to be built, some...
  • Question was a joke
    Published: 2 April 2010 IN recent times, Islington Council questionnaires have become familiar to most people, particularly on delicate matters such as sex, religion and ethnicity.  The question...
  • Fantastic Vox
    Published: 2 April 2010 READERS may like to know that Vox Holloway, a community choir based at St Luke’s Church in Holloway – featured recently in the Tribune – raised a fantastic...
  • Floored by such waste
    Published: 2 April 2010 COULD someone explain to me why, in this time of belt tightening, Islington Council is replacing perfectly sound pavements in Upper Street with expensive, faux York stone....
  • What a way for officials to treat tenant with grievance
    Published: 2 April 2010 WHAT'S happening with public accountability when council officials determine who can attend meetings (council or otherwise) within council buildings by citing complainants as...
  • Cuts won’t go away
    Published: 2 April 2010 ON Saturday, the Daily Telegraph revealed that “internal NHS documents” show that health chiefs in London are planning major cutbacks to meet a £5billion...