Latest Letters

  • How green is centre?
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • THE proposed Energy Centre and Heat Network in Bunhill will put us at the mercy of Russian gas.   Whatever Islington Council says, this energy centre will be...
  • Perverse to lose beds
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • ST Luke’s Hospital is to be sold. This quite shocking revelation that the mental health trust is closing so many of its hospital beds (nearly 100) should worry...
  • Record on gas stinks
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • IN my recent letter (We’re still waiting for reassurance on estate gas safety, May 27), I posed some rhetorical questions in relation to Homes for Islington...
  • How walkers can reclaim the towpath’s tranquillity
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • YOUR article (Travel expert steps into the towpath row, June 3) included some interesting developments, but some readers might think this topic is caught in an...
  • Barbecues are turning our Fields into oasis of brown
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • IF Councillor Paul Smith does indeed consider that “Anyone who is opposed to barbecues is a killjoy”, then he is, at best, short-sighted and unsuited to be...
  • There’s a limit to what we should pay
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • CONCERNING your front page report (Dad of eight in benefit plight cap home plight, May 27), the simple answer is do not have eight children. No one can see what the...
  • A hole in the heart of the Big Society
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • THE government has said that “Big Society” means taking power from politicians and giving it to the people.  This is a cover up for huge spending cuts...
  • The Soho village will miss Janet
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • THE Soho village has lost one of its most active and loyal villagers, Janet Vance (Obituary, June 3). Despite the fact that she was confined to a wheelchair for most...
  • Idea on ID
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • I SYMPATHISE with Stan Leeson (Letters, May 27) over Sainsbury’s policy of not accepting provisional driving licences as proof of ID.  However, midway...
  • Regulating the bonfire
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • HOW timely of council leader Colin Barrow to announce his “bonfire of regulations” in the same week that arrests were made as a result of the horrific...
  • Remember Mr Gekko?
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • YOU state that Lord Taylor accused the Diocese of London of “being obsessed by greed” having a “shameful philosophy” which “…...
  • Adult learners will lose out if education service is ousted
    Published: 10 June, 2011 • I AM distressed at the news that the departments of Westminster Adult Education Service which operate at Amberley Centre will have to find new accommodation from...
  • FORUM: We must all care about privatising care
    Published: 9 June, 2011 ALMOST by definition, for-profit companies cannot provide crucial care services for society’s most vulnerable people.   Their primary duty is to assure profits...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 9 June, 2011 THE fag-in-residence at the Hope and Heart informed Sunday drinkers: “It is a shame and disgrace. The Queen should have won Britain’s Got Talent. That Simon Cowell...
  • Mutilation is an anti-Islamic practice
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • FEMALE genital mutilation is an anti-Islamic practice and not a religious practice as stated (Resilience is women’s middle name, June 2).  In fact is a deep-...