Latest Letters

  • Irate about repair bills
    Published: 11 March 2010 • I ATTENDED a meeting organised by the Camden Leaseholders Forum at the council chamber in the Town Hall. The place was full to overflowing with irate and worried...
  • This brave councillor
    Published: 11 March 2010 I READ your story about Councillor Rebecca Hossack voting for UK Online (Art gallery Tory told: Vote with party or we will ‘kick you out’, March 4). I am a...
  • Is Party going back to roots?
    Published: 11 March 2010 THE swell of emotions that have arisen following the death of Michael Foot suggests that idealism is still alive and well, and that the idealism that gave birth to the Labour...
  • Labour is still struggling to put its house in order
    Published: 11 March 2010 IN the pre-election warm-up Labour boasts of its belief in a flowing fiscal policy. This is not the time for non-stop conveyor-belt cutbacks in public sector expenditure, say...
  • Baby unit in danger too
    Published: 5 March 2010 • A HUGE thank-you to the Tribune for its fantastic support for the Whittington march on Saturday.  And congratulations  to Defend the Whittington Hospital...
  • Now the other parties must come clean on Sobell future
    Published: 5 March 2010 • THANKS to Andrew Myer and the Green Party for the clear statement of policy concerning the future of the Sobell Centre (Threat to family silver, February 19). Sobell...
  • A&E closure a step towards bigger role for private firms
    Published: 5 March 2010 • LAST Saturday’s demo in support of Whittington Hospital’s A&E may have startled NHS Islington and NHS North Central London by its numbers, estimated at...
  • Where is it, what is it?
    Published: 5 March 2010 • INSTEAD of “Midtown” (If you had to get to Midtown would you know where to go? February 26) how about BlooHoSt to denote Bloomsbury, Holborn, St Giles, akin...
  • On bikes, for the record
    Published: 5 March 2010 • YOU did not contact the council for comment in regards to your story on charging for motorbike parking (‘Scrap the charge’ Opposition cites scheme’s...
  • Backing for bookshops
    Published: 5 March 2010 • I WRITE to support Gay’s the Word bookshop. Bloomsbury cannot afford to lose yet another bookshop. Camden has a clearly expressed policy of supporting...
  • Booze ban’s nine years old
    Published: 5 March 2010 • I READ Stuart Barrow’s letter with interest (Will nannying put paid to my Pimm’s in the square? February 26) but would remind him of the rationale for the...
  • Charlton Heston was a defender of individual choice
    Published: 5 March 2010 • IT is a pity that in his review of the latest Michael Moore film Capitalism: A Love Story, your film critic (Review, February 26) had to resort to gratuitous insults...
  • People power wins while Boris scores an own goal
    Published: 5 March 2010 • RESIDENTS worried about the World Cup being screened in Regent’s Park are not Nimbys (not in my back yarders). We had a number of legitimate concerns about public...
  • Let’s Roc Da Mic
    Published: 5 March 2010 • FANS of my daughter, singer Alexandra Burke,  might  be interested to know that I am involved in a charity talent event this Sunday where we are hoping to...
  • Are you listening?
    Published: 5 March 2010 • WE have been supporters of the Tribune since Talking News Islington started. We read articles from your newspaper for every edition of our audio local newspaper for the...