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  • Curbing our use of building will put profit before tenants
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • RESIDENTS on Highbury estate are furious at Islington Council for leasing community facilities to a private business. The local authority agreed the estate’s...
  • Thatcher’s role a myth
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • THE misfortune of the Conservative Party for the 12 years from Macmillan’s retirement in 1963 to Mrs Thatcher’s election in 1975 was that it had no leader...
  • I stopped and searched my boys before they went out
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • IT grieves me to hear of all these killings week after week (‘We must help cops keep our children safe’, May 3). Until parents, especially mothers, take...
  • Day of Action just part of protest at hospital sell-off
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • WE were disappointed to read Martin Klute’s criticism of Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition (Attack on ‘hooligan’ hospital campaigners no...
  • Some facts please on this burning issue
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • LIKE many residents I have been following the proposed closure of Clerkenwell fire station with natural concern (‘Boy owes his life to dash by firefighters...
  • Explore new cycle route
    Published: 10 May, 2013 • Sustrans did not fund the road redesign project in Drayton Park that Henry Zarb, of Islington Taxpayers’ Alliance, mentions (Cycling charity’s funding...
  • Will new chief be a breath of fresh air?
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • ANYONE who breathes the air of Islington will be pleased to learn we have a new environment chief, one who understands that pollution from exhaust pipes is killing us...
  • Why we must put an end to FGM
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • I WAS hugely concerned to read Councillor Rakhia Ismail’s recent comments on female genital mutilation (FGM) (Top legal chief damned as part of ‘white,...
  • 20mph banners such a waste of money
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • ISLINGTON Council bosses have spent £30,000 this month on banners for street lights promoting the borough’s 20mph speed limit. The council introduced the...
  • Who will be last to leave?
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • DICK Whittington must be turning in his grave as he watches the shambles unfold at the hospital named after him. Following the departure of the director of planning and...
  • It’s turning into a fire prevention service
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • PLANS to close fire stations, including Clerkenwell and Kingsland, mean London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) wants firefighters to do more with less...
  • A woman of note
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • THIS week saw the anniversary of the birth of feminist writer and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft, born on April 27, 1759, and resident of Newington Green, where she...
  • Stamp out this practice
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • RECENTLY I bought a book of first-class stamps from an off-licence in Old Street. The shopkeeper charged me 20p over the face value of the stamps. When I challenged the...
  • Measles vaccine roll-out
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • DESPITE the measles outbreak in south Wales, the number of cases in Islington remains low. Measles is preventable by vaccination with two doses of MMR vaccine. Recently...
  • Cycling charity’s funding behind road layout fiasco
    Published: 3 May, 2013 • RESIDENTS might like to know that the reason for the demolition and subsequent rebuilding of the Drayton Park width restriction, with all its attendant costs, was that...