Latest Letters

  • Who cares for carers?
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • RESEARCH just out from Carer’s UK and the University of Leeds has highlighted not only the immense contribution made by carers, but the worrying lack of support...
  • HS2 for Waterloo is not on
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • SO, ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone wants to send the controversial £30billion High Speed Two (HS2) rail link to Waterloo. His plans are ill thought out and could...
  • FORUM: Let’s hold on to these bastions
    Published: 13 May, 2011 THE Age of Enlightenment did not cast its rays on our mayor Councillor Trevor Bell or his stony-faced wife Dilys. It was said in mitigation that his mind had been put into...
  • So proud of our estate
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • THROUGH the Tribune, can I, on behalf of residents of Popham 1 estate flats at the Angel, thank Harley Sherlock for visiting our estate. Harley was the architect who...
  • Knock that brings help
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • AS the new Mayor of Islington I will be raising money for the charity Connect/Help on your Doorstep, of which I am a trustee.  The charity does what it says on the...
  • Wapping reckoning
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • AS a former member of a print union, I was pleased to read the article on the Wapping dispute (25 years on, Wapping is ‘a dispute that still inspires’,...
  • Give us a jobs share
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • I VISITED Network Rail’s Thameslink upgrade site at Farringdon station with Lib Dem London Assembly leader Caroline Pidgeon and Clerkenwell Lib Dem councillor...
  • School site needs vision
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • READERS may be interested in the latest news regarding plans to site Ashmount Primary School in Upper Holloway on open ground at Crouch Hill. Crouch Hill Community Park...
  • An insult to this couple
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • I FIND it incredible that a person living in a flat or a house in the United Kingdom in the 21st century should be without a bath or shower. I take mine for...
  • Victory for democracy
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • LAST Thursday, 57 per cent of Islington voters said Yes to the Alternative Vote (AV), making us, alongside neighbouring  Camden, Hackney and Haringey, one of the...
  • Pensioners left in limbo
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • LAST month, the Tribune carried an article about the Mayville pensioners’ lunch club in the area where I am one of the councillors (Awards bill ‘would save...
  • Beware of tenants’ ‘friends’ with a privatisation agenda
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • ARMS’-length management organisations (Almos), like Homes for Islington (HfI), were established when the then Labour government was pushing various forms of...
  • Two people sit in camera car all day... what a waste
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • WEEK after week, month after month, Islington Council’s spy-camera car sits in Market Street, Islington, while inside two members of staff idle away the hours....
  • Home truths?
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • IN all the surveys sent out to Westminster residents by CityWest Homes they have never asked whether they are better off under them or when they were under the City of...
  • Do you want to continue with first-past-the-post?
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • I WAS surprised that the wording for the referendum vote was listed on the ballot paper as Yes – No rather than No – Yes.  As far as I know ballot...