Latest Letters

  • Published: 27 August, 2010 • RESIDENTS have made a bid to create a “town green” at Marie Lloyd Gardens, off Hornsey Rise, Upper Holloway, undertaken following Open Spaces...
  • Published: 27 August, 2010 • WHAT makes the sorry tale of self interest triumphing over morals and due diligence at a time when swingeing cuts make it even less acceptable (Tenants in row...
  • Published: 27 August, 2010 • IT was with great delight that I saw that Islington will be able to play a part in the Olympic dream, with the Sobell Centre becoming the training ground for...
  • Published: 27 August, 2010 • MY children and I had a great time at Highbury Fields Fun Day. I would like to thank Islington Play Association and everyone else involved in creating such a...
  • Published: 27 August, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Terry Stacy defends the absence of Islington Liberal Democrats at our recent protest outside the Department of Health by claiming that services at...
  • Published: 27 August, 2010 ANOTHER day of decision nears in the long battle to save pioneering Finsbury Health Centre. Meg Howarth and Barb Jacobson warn that its closure would be an act of...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • THE Government is reconsidering new laws to scrap cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops, citing the impact they might have on business. Yet we...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WHY is the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government so committed to hounding benefit cheats and yet appears to be turning a blind eye to the biggest fraud of all...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • CAMPAIGNERS against the effective and cost-efficient camera in Riversdale Road, Highbury, will be well aware that residents pressed for many years for measures to...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • I SEE the Prime Minister is holidaying in Britain and encouraging others to do the same.  Good. Better than Blair, who was always abroad with his millionaire...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • I WAS disappointed to read that no Islington schools are looking to take academy status (Lukewarm welcome for academies plan, July 2). Academy status gives schools...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • IN the article about cyclists on the canal path (Cyclists and pedestrians on canal collision course, August 13), Yvette Pathare said cyclists are now dominating the...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • KEN Livingstone’s article (Beware Tories’ ghettos for the rich, August 13) is another horrendous example of the delusional, dogmatic socialism which got...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • WE are writing to express our worries about plans by Islington Council to close our support unit in St Paul’s Road, Highbury. This house, supported by 404...
  • Published: 20 August, 2010 • NEITHER I, nor any community volunteer I know, expects people to incur personal expenses while carrying out a voluntary role (Tenants in row over expenses for HfI...