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Canal arch disappears

Published: 10 September, 2010 • AT the Angel Canal Festival at the weekend cheers were raised when we found that overnight the arch over the access to the Regent’s Canal at Danbury Street...
Too early for health centre supporters to toast victory

Published 10 September, 2010 • HOPEFULLY, by this fourth time round, Tribune readers will have learned to be sceptical when the paper announces “Victory!” yet again in relation to...
Pedestrians versus traffic in a desperate battle for space

Published: 10 September, 2010 • I WISH to draw attention to the chaotic situation at the southern end of York Way in King’s Cross. Despite millions of pounds being spent on development at...
Attack on Gaza brought back memories of Guernica bombing

Published: 10 September, 2010 • AS an octogenarian who was an interested observer of the politics of the 1930s and 1940s, the recent exhibition and your review of paintings by Gaza artists (...
Health food for thought

Published: 10 September, 2010 • THE cost of our ageing population is calculated by the IMF to be 335 per cent of GDP, that is almost £200,000 for every British household. Are we...
Let’s hear it for cabbies

Published: 10 September, 2010 • THERE are more factors that need to be taken into consideration when comparing black taxis and minicabs (Letters, August 26 and September 2). Every London black...
Volunteers plan a cloak for massive service cuts

Published: 10 September, 2010 • BASING local services for over 250,000 Westminster residents on the basis of an “army of volunteers”, as Westminster City Council leader Colin Barrow...
Unit move not about cuts

Published: 10 September, 2010 • YOUR article, Eating disorder unit faces axe under plans to centralise care (September 3), may have given readers the impression that the proposed relocation of...
Are free meals fair?

Published: 10 September, 2010 • THE front page of Islington Life states: “Offering free school meals to all primary school children is a key part of Islington Council’s work to make...
We didn’t want wage

Published: 10 September, 2010 • I SERVED on Clerkenwell Neighbourhood Tenants’ Association committee for four years (Let tenants have a say, August 27). While there, I spoke for about 1,...
From Blitz to Gaza

Published: 10 September, 2010 • AS an octogenarian who was an interested observer of the politics of the 1930s and 1940s, the recent exhibition and your review of paintings by Gaza artists at...
Rein in the developers

Published: 10 September, 2010 • ON Tuesday night a temporary reprieve was given for the land at the NCH (National Children’s Home) site in Highbury and an important stance was taken on...
First they kill wild flowers...

Published: 9 September, 2010 • I AM pleased to hear about the campaign to ban those environmental disaster machines – leaf blowers. Thinking back over many years, it has been...
Gospel Oak cuts crime

Published: 9 September, 2010 • IN view of previous correspondence about crime in Gospel Oak, I’m delighted to be able to highlight the exceptional success of our Safer...
HS2 will aid regeneration

Published: 9 September, 2010 • IN the novel Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens likened the construction of the London and Birmingham railway through Camden Town to a “great earthquake...