Latest Letters

  • Why staff got chocs
    • IT was with regret that we read your report (‘Chocolates for votes’ NHS quiz, December 11), which was short on fact and long on speculation. Proper and balanced reporting of the facts would have...
  • Tears flow over letter
    • FOLLOWING support from the Tribune and councillors Martin Klute and Gary Doolan, the residents of the Popham 1 estate thought they could sleep easy when in October they received letters from Homes...
  • Baffled by temple bar
    • ON a recent spiritual journey to Jerusalem, although not particularly religious, I was disappointed not to be able to go inside the beautiful Temple on the Mount – just because I am not a Muslim....
  • Free meals fairer for all
    • IT is a guiding principle in British life that health and education for children are free, and it is a significant anomaly in our system that the lunchtime meal at school has been excluded from...
  • A blow for equal rights
    • AS a strong supporter of equal rights, I am delighted that Islington Council’s insistence that all registrars must carry out civil partnership ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples has been upheld...
  • Look past front door
    • I WOULD like to commend Notting Hill Trust for finally putting in plans to create more affordable housing in Islington. The planning application for the proposed block is a vast improvement on the...
  • All-singing, all-dancing
    • A SPLENDID production of Guys and Dolls was staged by City of London Girls’ School last week. It was all such fun, the singing and dancing accompanied by an excellent orchestra. It was delightful...
  • Harvest our street trees
    • YOUR readers may remember Islington Council’s threat back in November 2007 to fell some rare fruit trees because of the so-called health and safety hazard posed by their “killer pears” (Health and...
  • No peace on Heath
    • I WISH I could agree with B Bowden and L Norman’s high opinion of the running of the Heath (Letters, December 10). I no longer walk there as frequently because in the past year or so it has become...
  • Celebrations success
    • THANKS to those who attended Camden Association of Street Properties’ annual meeting and who helped make the end-of-year celebrations such a success! The fantastic efforts also helped raise £654...
  • Threat to A&E and trying to pass the buck
    • LIKE many others, I have been very concerned to hear about plans to close the accident and emergency unit at the Whittington Hospital.  Speaking to hundreds of local residents it’s clear that this...
  • A man of vision
    • A BOOK-LOVER all my life and a believer that the greatest gift a mother can give a child is the love of reading, the news about the Kentish Town Primary School library (December 10) was the best...
  • Immaculate inoculation
    • I WAS very much impressed how the Brondesbury Medical Centre operated the inoculations against the swine flu session, with no queueing, no time-wasting, just a straightforward routine with several...
  • Location rewarded
    • GOOD news for the residents of the Mornington Area of Camden. The company which last week spent a day in Mornington Crescent and Mornington Place shooting scenes for a new adaptation of Graham...
  • We backed the troops
    • YOUR article, (Protests at far-right Euro party’s meeting in pub, December 10), quotes John Coyne, publican of the Gloucester Arms saying that the Leighton Road Neighbourhood Association’s...