Latest Letters

  • Published: 26 August, 2010 • IT was a disgrace that the property developers sprayed their “tag” along the Regent’s Canal towpath as you reported (Muppets creator’s flats...
  • • I AM writing a book and hope to interview people who have experience of looking after a relative who has schizophrenia or other major mental illness. If you would like to help me get some...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • THE Government is reconsidering new laws to scrap cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops, citing the impact they might have on business. Yet we...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WHY is the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government so committed to hounding benefit cheats and yet appears to be turning a blind eye to the biggest fraud of all...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • CAMPAIGNERS against the effective and cost-efficient camera in Riversdale Road, Highbury, will be well aware that residents pressed for many years for measures to...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • I SEE the Prime Minister is holidaying in Britain and encouraging others to do the same.  Good. Better than Blair, who was always abroad with his millionaire...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • I WAS disappointed to read that no Islington schools are looking to take academy status (Lukewarm welcome for academies plan, July 2). Academy status gives schools...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • IN the article about cyclists on the canal path (Cyclists and pedestrians on canal collision course, August 13), Yvette Pathare said cyclists are now dominating the...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • KEN Livingstone’s article (Beware Tories’ ghettos for the rich, August 13) is another horrendous example of the delusional, dogmatic socialism which got...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WE are writing to express our worries about plans by Islington Council to close our support unit in St Paul’s Road, Highbury. This house, supported by 404...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • NEITHER I, nor any community volunteer I know, expects people to incur personal expenses while carrying out a voluntary role (Tenants in row over expenses for HfI...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 WE all knew that a huge social battle was coming and lawyers were only a part of it. But there is now an alternative to the huge attacks on ordinary working people, argues...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WE are all appalled at the prospect of losing Bonnie Blooms (Petal fatigue: Florists faces closure, August 13). Could there not be an offer from the Park Inn hotel...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • IMPOSING parking fines on ambulance drivers carrying out their role in helping very ill patients is deplorable (West End Extra, August 13).  Not only are...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WE can go on into the semantics of assured and secure tenancies but the bottom line is that unless a tenant does something grotesquely wrong they are protected...