Latest Letters

  • Let’s unite against cuts
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THERE is little argument that cuts to public services will be felt most starkly by the most vulnerable people in Islington.  As these services are withdrawn, the...
  • Tragic death demonstrates a gap in care of mentally ill
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THE sad death of Valerie Gough in Jasper ward at Highgate Mental Health Centre is a repeat of the well-known story about what happens once someone is diagnosed as...
  • Can’t shops back a bus that offers way out of isolation?
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • ENSURING better use of resources is one of my aims for my year as an Older People’s Champion. The under-use of the 812 bus was the main inspiration for this (...
  • What of the SDP if Healey had been Labour leader?
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THE Gang of Four formed the SDP for another reason (Wanna be in our gang? Review, March 18). The Labour Party had changed its policies to the point where they could...
  • Compassion and soup a bad mix
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THE Forum by Jad Adams on soup runs (March 18) actually proves the opposite point – why Westminster City Council is right to ban soup runs and rough sleeping....
  • What a lot of waste
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THE Labour opposition leader Paul Dimoldenberg asked in his letter (No controls over a huge waste of public money, March 18) what the “Transformation”...
  • This is hardly a programme of closures
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • YOUR article on pensions for senior staff at Westminster City Council (Pension pots of £1m for City Hall bosses, March 11) referred to David Ruse, director of...
  • Danger of cancer in the garden
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • FUMES from charcoal barbecues are carcinogenic.  I suffer from them on every warm day from neighbours’ gardens.  No one complains so nothing is done...
  • It’s time to join the fight to save St James’s Library from the axe
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • THE closure of the St James’s Library in Victoria Street will hit the many elderly residents living nearby, as well as pupils at local schools.  This...
  • FORUM: A coroner with quest for justice
    Published: 25 March, 2011 by JOSH LOEB Westminster Coroner Dr Paul Knapman retires next week RECENT battles between Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and rebel fighters have brought back...
  • Much-loved architectural gem is under threat again
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • The Beaux Arts residents in Holloway are being forced to resist for a second time an assault on their beautiful Islington building. After hundreds of letters and a...
  • What news?
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • A MAN breaks laws / bylaws and objects to being fined. This is news?  I was threatened with sexual assault, bodily harm and death by a cyclist on the Heath once...
  • Ridiculous
    Published: 24 March 2011 • IN response to last week’s report about  cycling on a No Cycling path… what will I hear next? A fine of £330 is ridiculous. Having known...
  • A reminder
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I DARE say there are many who think that “at last something’s been done”, (Fined Heath cyclist says: I don’t run down old ladies, March...
  • Eye don’t believe it…
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I AM absolutely disgusted at the removal of the “Eye Believe” street art that was removed from Lulworth tower block, Agar Grove (Stopped believing? Tower...