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• I AM writing to support Richard Brennan’s letter (Pedestrians must unite in the face of cyclist menace, December 18) about the irresponsible behaviour of some cyclists, particularly in Upper Street...
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• DURING this cold weather, I have been amazed at the attitude of people. We know the council is useless when it comes to clearing pavements, but, without wishing to give them any credit, they can’t...
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• DEL Brenner’s letter about the City Road Basin’s new plaza and the development associated with this seems to us to be somewhat churlish (Canal basin plaza better off without bulky towers, January 1...
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• BEFORE Christmas I parked on a single yellow line close to Hackney Empire after 6.30pm and came out of the theatre 70 minutes later to find my car had been towed away to a car pound in Poplar. I...
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• I FOUND your front-page article illuminating because it illustrated just how our council’s “common sense” parking policies often have little or nothing to do with the ordinary person’s...
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• WELL done, residents of Spa Green estate for getting Islington Council to review its communal heating policy (Tenants turn up the heat on homes agency, January 1).
Residents on the Redbrick estate...
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• THE 16,423 members of Islington Council Pension Fund have not been told that it needs £1051.9million to fund its long-term pension obligations but has only £536.1million in shares, bonds and cash....
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A PROPERTY developer wants to demolish the much-loved Marchmont Bookshop on Burton Street near Euston and replace it with a luxury townhouse.
This will damage the character of Bloomsbury. I urge...
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FARE-paying Londoners will be only too aware this week of the huge rises which Mayor Johnson has now inflicted on the travelling public, especially those who prefer to use the bus network to get...
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THE New Year will be one of the toughest this country has faced in recent memory, so 2010 will have to be a year when Westminster City Council works even harder to meet the needs of the people we...
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THE news that the A&E department of the Whittington Hospital may be closed is indeed shocking.
As my local hospital I have had very good treatment there over the years as an out-patient.
It...
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IN Camden Council’s site allocation document – essentially a long-term plan for redevelopment in Camden – there is prominence given to rebuilding Camden Town Tube and nothing is ruled out including...
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BEWARE the promises from politicians that will flood our newspapers and TV screens from now until election day.
Easy pledges will drip off the tongues of party leaders. In what will be the first “...
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THE tragic death of cyclist Maria Fernandez, which you reported last week, highlights the importance of drivers following road rules.
The “bike box”, the green rectangle painted on the road behind...
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THEY said it would snow. It did. The roads and pavements are treacherous. With the exception of TfL’s bus routes, they have not been treated.Where are all the gritters? The council won’t tell me. Can...
