Latest Letters

  • No control of contractors improving my home
    Published: 4 March 2010 • I AM unsurprised by the news that Camden tenants are refusing the offer of kitchen and bathroom refurbish­ments, work on my flat started more than four months ago...
  • Job club supports unemployed to get back into work
    Published: 4 March 2010 • CAMDEN councillor Julian Fulbrook rightly observes that local people are not stupid (‘Partnership administration’ bickering is at fever pitch, Letters...
  • Jeweller of extraordinary inventiveness on show
    Published: 4 March 2010 • A TRIP to the Victoria and Albert Museum is always worth it. There’s a special reason for a visit now. David Watkins, one of the world’s great jewellers and...
  • Decent Homes and the law
    Published: 4 March 2010 • FURTHER to your article ‘New Kitchen and bathroom? No Thanks’, February25, I understand the reluctance of tenants to allow access for the Decent Homes...
  • Trust deals with many matters behind closed doors
    Published: 4 March 2010 • ONE of the points that came out of the recent Francis Report on the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust disaster was how much secrecy surrounded the proceedings of its board and other...
  • Why was there no help to clear up raw sewage?
    Published: 4 March 2010 • ON Sunday February 21 considerable quantities of raw sewage began to pour into Lamble Street and Oak Village from a drain on Kiln Place estate. This was duly reported...
  • Holocaust survivor’s courage
    Published: 4 March 2010 • I HAD the privilege of seeing Auschwitz survivor Dr Hajo Meyer’s courage in the face of the repeated attacks at the House of Commons meeting, and he certainly did...
  • Let’s have an end to secrecy with the NHS and money
    Published: 4 March 2010 • THE Green Party supports the Defend Whittington Hospital campaign because we believe in local provision of public services. We are also the only elected political...
  • Club takes pride in its community
    Published: 26 February 2010 by STEVE BARNETT THE Gunners celebrated being more than just a football club this week when players turned out in force for Arsenal in the Community’s 25th...
  • We step up noise teams
    Published: 26 February 2010 • I’D like to reassure residents about the future of Islington’s noise patrols, in response to concerns on this page (Why take cuts axe to already...
  • Garden still in danger
    Published: 26 February 2010 • ACTION for Children has written this week to Emma Dixon, the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Islington North, to say it is withdrawing the planning...
  • Suing yourself? Now that really is a Town Hall farce
    Published: 26 February 2010 • I READ in disbelief of the farcical situation at Islington Council, which is taking itself to a parking appeals tribunal in an attempt to claim costs, against...
  • Privilege to know Phil
    Published: 26 February 2010 • IT IS with great sadness that I read that Phil Poole, the wood carver and poet, passed away on February 1. He was 65, just a month or two older than I am. I first...
  • Why pick on poster?
    Published: 26 February 2010 I HAVE just noticed a poster outside Budgens in Upper Street, Islington. Obviously, it has caused deep offence. Andrew Marx, the council enforcement “officer...
  • Email threat to privacy
    Published: 26 February 2010 I WAS impressed when I received an email sent by Highbury East Safer Neighbourhoods Team (SNT). The email was an invitation to a public meeting and provided information on...