Latest Letters

  • Forty pounds is a big penalty for a slight scratch card error
    Published: 11 November, 2010 • YET another horrendous “parking solutions” incident in Camden. Parking restrictions in Well Road are signed from 9am until 8pm (that is, a 12-hour...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Problem of playing it safe while the cuts bite deeper
    Published: 11 November, 2010 Which is better: playing safe politics or engaging in the bumpier politics of principles and morals? This dilemma is confronting all serious Labour councillors and,...
  • Not a treat!
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • LADBROKE Grove on the last day of October was not for the faint-hearted!  Large groups gathered, possibly 20 to 30 persons in all, simply on the streets for...
  • Power to the royals
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • THE Crown Estate should be handed back to the Queen in its entirety. Rather than having to rely on carping politicians and being sneered at by those who oppose the...
  • Church unfair
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • MEMBERS of the London West End Women’s Institute would like to express their dismay at the decision of the parochial church council of St Anne’s...
  • Merger plan displays a worrying contempt for democracy
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • THE proposed merger of functions and services by the City of Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea councils is a threat to local...
  • Destruction of historic workhouse would be vandalism
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • FURTHER to Max Neufeld’s letter on behalf of the Charlotte Street Association (October 29) concerning the proposed destruction of the Strand Union Workhouse...
  • In defence of local policing
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • IN 2006 London became the first region to have dedicated local police teams for every neighbourhood.  Today there are 630 Safer Neighbourhoods teams in London...
  • Super-council? No thanks
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • WHILE we support cross-borough working to reduce costs, we are dismayed by the lack of consultation by the majority Conservative Party on the principle of merging...
  • Regenerate bit by bit
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • IT is amazing that Councillor Arthur Graves should oppose the plans to regenerate Archway (£2m pulled out of hat, October 29).  His party wanted...
  • Mean to cut our flowers
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • MY late friend Peter Powell, former chairman of Islington Archaeology and History Society, would have been terribly sad to see the removal of Islington floral...
  • From a hive of industry to a home of City parasites
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • CAROLINE Goreing writes: “Converting factories and light industrial premises into expensive, luxury homes is part of the problem – not the cure” (...
  • Promise a damp squib
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • On November 4 last year, Councillor Paul Convery said: “This is the last year in which Islington will be denied a fireworks display.” This was...
  • Lucrative road traps
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • I WAS recently issued with a parking control notice after being caught in one of Islington’s road restriction traps. While looking on the Tribune website, I...
  • Building fit for school
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • JAMES Dunnett writes again in defence of the current Ashmount School building (Is this listed school safe? October 29). He refers to it as “an excellent...