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EDITOR'S COMMENT
SUDDENLY, so-called fat cats at Town Halls across the country are in the limelight again.
Next year, nearly 500 local authorities and associated bodies will be legally required to...
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TIM Newark suggests that the Green Party’s pride in making Islington the first 20mph borough in the country is cynical electioneering and an empty gesture (Few back 20mph, December 11). The same day...
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I HAVE been in touch with Homes for Islington (HfI) to try to reach agreement on repayment of a £17,302 major works bill that will not leave me bankrupt. It has told me (I paraphrase) to get stuffed...
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I HEARTILY endorse the points Emma Dixon, of Islington Green Party, makes regarding the importance of preserving existing street fruit trees, and making use of their produce (Harvest our street...
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Proposals to scrap Islington’s universal free school meals programme will set back the fight against obesity that all of us must tackle together, writes Professor Jack Winkler
WE are waddling to...
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EARLIER this year the police laid on a greatly over-publicised operation against a West End address in Dean Street, Soho.
Far more officers than were needed rolled-up for photographs and all kinds of...
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AS if Westminster’s parking department had not been kept busy enough with bikers protesting at being hit with a new parking levy!
Add to this rows over unclear yellow lines, controversy over alleged...
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THE Pre-Budget Report is a stark and timely reminder of the tough economic climate we now live in, particularly for local government which is facing a triple whammy of increased demand for services,...
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BETWEEN 50 and 70 people braved the weather to hold a candlelit demo of home educating families on December 8 outside the Houses of Parliament.
Later that night there was a mass presentation of a...
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AS one of the organisers of and lead singer (soprano) in the alternative, inter-faith, carol event at the Actor’s Church, Covent Garden, I was very pleased to see your article (‘Go to hell!’ Peace...
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PATRICIA McAllister’s stunning victory in last week’s Queen’s Park ward by-election has changed the political landscape in Westminster.
With an 11 per cent swing to Labour from the Conservatives,...
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• I UNDERSTAND Hillingdon and Ealing councils are consulting residents, leaseholders and tenants with a view to winding up their arms’-length management organisations (Almos).
Councillors have found...
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• I AM writing to express my anger at the behaviour of cyclists. I work in Islington, and walk along Upper Street each day to reach my office. When crossing the road near Islington Green at 8.50am...
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• CLOSING the Whittington A and E is madness. In the past fortnight we have had to visit morning outpatient clinics at the Royal Free and the Whittington. Leaving home in Hornsey at 8am in a minicab...
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• THERE was another serious accident at the junction of Holloway Road, Fieldway Crescent and Madras Place recently, but while people are being hurt and killed Mayor of London Boris Johnson and his...
