Latest Letters

  • Published: 2nd June, 2011 • YOUR article (Caversham is offered a lifeline, May 26) about the threatened closure of the nursery perhaps need a little clarification. Currently it serves two wards...
  • Published: 2nd June, 2011 • FOLLOWING the recent controversy about the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead failing to meet the legal standards when caring for the elderly, I feel that I must write...
  • Published: 2nd July, 2011 • I SUPPOSE that it was only a matter of time before the Camden & Islington Mental Health Trust decided to close a third hospital (New Journal, May 26).  ...
  • Published: 2nd June, 2011 • I WISH I could be surprised by your report of culture minister Ed Vaizey’s behaviour at the British Museum (‘Help!’ Vaizey refuses to answer...
  • Published: 27 May 2011 • TWO months without rain, and people are wasting water on cars and gardens.  The fact is that we cannot manufacture the stuff.  What we have, must be conserved...
  • Published: 27 May 2011 • MANY local voluntary and community groups are in dire financial need.  That is why Westminster’s Labour councillors have called on council chief executive...
  • Published: 27 May 2011 • IN my local Sainsbury’s store I was made aware of its new policy of not accepting a provisional driving licence as photo identification.  This policy is...
  • Published: 27 May 2011 • IT beggars belief that the Tory-led coalition government are adopting a US-style healthcare system – as the Americans themselves are rejecting theirs because it is...
  • Published: 27 May 2011 • I AM a bus driver on the 24 route and I note the warnings about riding Boris bikes in London’s pollution.   Some of your readers may have noticed me stopping...
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • PHIL Cosgrove refers to Labour’s and the Lib Dems’ use of “independent tenants’ friends” to help push through privatisation of council...
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • THE newly-refurbished ice rink at Sobell Leisure Centre, paid for by Islington Council and residents, has now been out of operation for several months. At the request...
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • GIVEN an extra £190,000 a year on offer per school, it would not be surprising to find that all primary schools in Islington are giving serious consideration to...
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • READERS may be interested to hear about the free neighbourhood festival – Soul in the City – during half term (May 31-June 5) at churches in Islington....
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • A FEW pacifists invited to a conference this month at the Imperial War Museum discussed war and peace issues with older pupils from Highgate Wood School in Crouch End...
  • Published: 27th May, 2011 • ON the face of it, Councillor Paul Convery’s response to my suggestion that it is extremely wasteful to have two council employees sitting almost daily in a...