Latest Letters

  • Stop the prejudice
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • PRECISELY the same amount has been set aside for the coming military offensive in Kandahar province as the government’s first wave of spending cuts. Yet the...
  • Overbearing?
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • THE decision of Westminster City Council’s planning committee to approve the structure memorialising Bomber Command in Green Park was not unanimous.  ...
  • Alas, poor Doric will spoil RAF memorial in the park
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • NOW that the RAF Bomber Command memorial in Green Park has been granted planning permission by Westminster City Council, would the architects please reconsider...
  • Parliament Square has become a squalid vanity project of the radical
    Published: 28 May, 2010 Freedom to protest is rightly a cornerstone of our democracy, but this should not be at the expense of other people’s rights, argues Mark Field • WITH the...
  • Losing out at polls
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • ORIEL Hutchinson’s claim that the Conservatives are the main opposition to Labour in Islington is, to say the least, a little surprising (Letters, May 21)....
  • Strict parking laws threaten to shut shop after 150 years
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • FOR more than 150 years our family have run a popular fish shop in Essex Road. Now our business is under threat more than ever before because of draconian parking...
  • Mayor even more exotic
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • AS she says she has Berber roots the new Islington Mayor, Mouna Hamitouche, may have an even more exotic background than being the first Algerian mayor in the UK....
  • Free food... and cash
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • SOME people only seem happy if they can stop other people doing things (Letters, May 21). I go to these boring meetings because there is usually free food and when...
  • Action, not more talk
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • YOU report that one of the new Labour council’s first acts was to set up a Fairness Commission (New regime makes fairness and affordable housing top...
  • Allowances cover-up
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • I WAS disappointed to discover the new leader of the council, Councillor Catherine West, and her executive have already backtracked on their promises – only a few...
  • Keep our files private
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • THE proposal by the NHS to remove or copy patients’ private medical records to compile the largest countrywide database, which could be accessed by anyone...
  • Maybe time to grab cab
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • PAULINE Lord asks why I evoked a child as being a potential victim of a dangerous driver (Driving test re-sits at 80, May 21). It is simply the fact that children tend...
  • Complain, it’s easy
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • BY law, councils have duties and responsibilities to carry out certain repairs. They must keep in repair the structure and outside of their residential properties (...
  • Folk opera tribute to Lisa, our­ engaging campaigner
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • READERS who knew Islington’s Lisa Pontecorvo may be interested in Lisa – a folk opera, which will be performed at 4pm on Tuesday, June 8, in Edward...
  • Repairs disgrace right on the Town Hall’s doorstep
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • FOLLOWING my letter about the unnecessary re-paving of Upper Street and the town hall (Floored by such waste, April 2), I notice that major repairs are already...