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  • Why I cannot stomach this invasion of takeaway flyers
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • I cannot be alone in being increasingly annoyed and dismayed at the number of flyers put through my door on a weekly basis. As someone who rarely eats...
  • FORUM: Political interference ensured school did not stand a chance
    Published: 3 February, 2012 The news that City of London Academy is failing disastrously, with fewer than a third of its pupils getting grades A-C in five GCSEs, is sad but not surprising. The...
  • Stealth cuts shrink the number of police on streets
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Islington’s police service is being reduced. Last year, we were told our borough, along with all other London boroughs, regardless of crime statistics or...
  • Two million litres later, the underpass leak flows on
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Thanks for taking note of the important issue of the leak in the Archway Road underpass (Underpass leak has Charlotte in floods of tears, January 13). It is,...
  • Waiting for your help
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Thanks to the Tribune’s support, more and more of our refugee students enjoy three hours a fortnight with a volunteer mentor, giving them a chance to practise...
  • Deeper into debt
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • As most residents are having to “cut their cloth according to their means” in these austere times, the first thing Islington councillors are planning to...
  • Muslims targeted
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Your anonymous correspondent seems to think that “Britishness” and multiculturalism are incompatible (Our shared culture, January 27). What nonsense!...
  • Cap City’s soaraway salaries
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Stephen Hester’s waiver of a £963,000 bonus was welcome, although perhaps not quite as generous as it appeared at first glance. After all, it seems...
  • Action on gyratory
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Prompted by the disabled protest in Oxford Street at the weekend, I’ve thought of the long tradition there is in Britain of taking direct action when that...
  • School does a great job
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • I WRITE to defend Islington Arts and Media School (Teachers save pupil from school attack, January 27). I am a 77-year-old pensioner, and can only praise this...
  • Forget homes shortage, it’s all about housing injustice
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • So Islington Council wants to demolish Ashmount School – in the face of widespread opposition – in order to build “affordable” housing on...
  • Time to dig deep for the Roundhouse
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • A good turnout of concerned residents attended Highbury East Ward Partnership meeting on Tuesday night to hear the latest update on plans for Highbury Roundhouse....
  • Estate celebrates victory
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Well done, Catherine West, leader of Islington Council, for getting Homes for Islington (HfI) to reconsider its policy that led to the banning of Highbury estate...
  • Dogma not delusion
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • Lewis Wolpert’s review of Rupert Sheldrake’s new book, The Science Delusion, Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry can’t really be counted as a review (...
  • Paintings are a unique record of bomb-damaged city
    Published: 3 February, 2012 • I was so pleased to hear that you are highlighting a campaign for a commemorative plaque for Cyril Mann at Bevin Court, Finsbury. It seems so appropriate to pay...