Latest Letters

  • Criminal siege
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • IN her outpouring of bile against Gideon Levy (Adding to the growing wave of anti-Israeli hate speech? September 2) Nicole Segre asserts “Far from...
  • Leak at Brill Place superlab would be catastrophic
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • MANY unsafe laboratories fined – so how safe is a superlab? As Somers Town residents learn of British research laboratories being fined for lax safety...
  • A great sporting event in aid of Pakistan’s flood victims
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • WE’RE inviting everybody to the most exciting sporting event this year – a football match between the Camden Labour boys and New Journal reporters...
  • Boris has taken our bus stop shelter seat away
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • WITHOUT consulting the public, Boris Johnson’s men have inflamed local opinion by removing a much-appreciated bus shelter seat from the southernmost...
  • Robo books
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Steve Summers and I have obviously spoken to different people (Libraries to get self-service machines, August 27). Readers in Paddington library...
  • Why black cabs can cost more
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • IN reply to Clare Parker’s complaining of the price of black cabs (Letters, August 27), I have a son who is a black cab driver so asked him for some...
  • Film ban is really not the answer
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • I HAVE no great wish to see A Serbian Film but am utterly opposed to censoring it or anything else (X-rated, ‘FrightFest’ organisers scrap...
  • Housing dilemma
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • IN the past few months your pages have carried story after story about the likely impacts of the government’s proposed housing benefit cuts. We can expect...
  • Grim toll of hit-and-run casualties on our roads
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • IT is distressing to learn that Westminster is now one of the most dangerous boroughs in London in terms of road safety. According to Department for...
  • Peter did us proud
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • ROUGH sleeper Peter Pickles, who has just turned 60, undertook a sponsored 70-mile walk from Islington to Dymchurch in Kent to raise funds and awareness of...
  • Estate torn to shreds
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • ANYBODY reading Bunhill councillor Troy Gallagher’s comments (Letters, August 27) would expect him to be opposed to any attempt to force communities out...
  • It’s how you declutter
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • IT is clear which road users are being prioritised by the Mayor, Boris Johnson, and his advisors (‘It’s not right to remove lights’, August 27)....
  • What Katie did best
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • DO our politicians spend any time in thinking what they can do to improve things for the people of Islington. From reading the Tribune and seeing their...
  • Din harms your health
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • RESIDENTS of Whitecross Street are plagued by noise nuisance from pubs and 24-hour off-licences, although there are 4,800 flats in EC1 which make it a very...
  • Threatened day centre just like a family for many of us
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • AS a member, I am very concerned about the threatened closure of Sotheby Mews Day Centre if Islington Council withdraws its funding. This would have a...