Latest Letters

  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • AS an independent candidate standing in the local government elections, I am allowed to spend just over £1,000 to let the 8,000 electors in Canonbury ward...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • GORDON Brown has criticised Tory and Lib Dem plans to scale down and remove DNA profiles of persons who have not been convicted of a crime. He says DNA helps put...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • IN December and January, the Green Party took a petition around calling on Islington Council to provide a new pedestrian crossing across Drayton Park, near the...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • PLEASED as I was to see Leo Chapman raise his glass of beer (Glasses raised as walkers win right to stroll in the park by canal, April 2), I knew after many...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • LIB Dems are backing residents’ efforts to save the historic lobby of the Beaux Arts Building in Manor Gardens, Upper Holloway, and get the building listed...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • WHAT is Gordon McIntosh complaining about (Mandatory internment, April 9)? He’s been unemployed for nearly a year and says there are no jobs for college...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • ISLINGTON Council is spending a one-off amount of £1.7million on the Sobell Centre, including renewing the ice rink, upgrading the central floor space and...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • LAST week you reported on “Operation Save Emily”. This means plenty of Labour big-wigs coming to Islington in the hope that extra publicity will help to...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • ANDREW Fagg would be one of very few people who finds the BT Tower’s advertising banner irritating (BT Tower advertising blights the night sky, April 2). I...
  • Publsihed: 16 April, 2010 • HOUSING  issues are the biggest concern raised by residents at our weekly advice surgeries. To address Conservative housing failures, Labour councillors...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • THE Green Party will be standing 17 candidates (covering 15 wards) in the local elections on May 6. Although Westminster is pretty much a closed shop, do...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • I WAS appalled to learn in West End Extra that Westminster City Council face a £50million lawsuit over alleged mismanagement of the borough’s parking...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • Why has there so far been in the electoral campaign no mention of the “A” word – Afghanistan?  Besides all its death and destruction, the...
  • Published: 16 April, 2010 • I AM unusually intrigued by the West End Extra Diary, (Just get on with it – as Ian might have said, April 9). It related how Councillor Frixos Tombolis,...
  • Published: 15 April, 2010 by DAN CARRIER THE funeral of Jim Duggan, a lifelong trade union activist in Camden who has died aged 82, is at the St Marylebone Crematorium, East Finchley, on Friday...