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  • Legal advice… at a price
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • GOVERNMENT plans to introduce “supermarket”-style legal aid are a serious assault on people with low incomes, as access to justice will be based on...
  • Smiles of reassurance
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • SINCE reports of attacks on mosques following the tragic killing of a British soldier in Woolwich I hope there have been no violent incidents around Islington mosques...
  • Self-service tills next?
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • I WAS saddened but unsurprised by the news that yet another popular London feature is being swept aside by Network Rail – the news kiosk at King’s Cross...
  • Our fight to protect pubs
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • I ENTIRELY share Elizabeth Case’s anger, frustration and disappointment at the loss of the Good Intent pub (Time called on pubs, March 29), and I write as chair...
  • Classrooms are all within the school
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • THE spokesman for Ashmount Site Action Group made the unfounded statement that Coleridge Primary School is using “overspill Portakabins” (Free school is on...
  • Dog owners who blight our lives and trash our streets
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • EVERY morning I wake up to find a new pile of dog mess deposited on the tree outside my home in Offord Road, Barnsbury. Ditto in all the other streets surrounding...
  • Do we need to ban parking seven hours before concert?
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • ONCE again, common sense went out of the window last weekend when the council imposed match-day parking controls on Saturday and Sunday. The football season is over,...
  • Cyclehoops mix-up
    Published: 31 May, 2013 • A TOTAL of 211 Cyclehoops – where bikes can be left – have been put on the wrong street posts – signposts instead of lampposts –  by...
  • Why do dog walkers think that they own these parks?
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • BARNSBURY Square gates were locked in an open position to enable disabled people to access the gardens (‘Keep the gates shut’ plea by dog walkers, May...
  • We have to suffer squalor
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • COUNCILLOR Phil Kelly is reported as saying that, in response to Arsenal’s application for six concerts, “it was time to ask: What has Arsenal done for us...
  • A scandal that stations are kept closed on match days
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • IT is indeed a puzzle why no significant improvements have been made to public transport serving Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, despite some £3m apparently...
  • Centre a safety net in times of difficulty
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • ISLEDON Road Mental Health Resource Centre has provided support, care and a place of safety for hundreds of men and women of all ages, races, sexuality and creeds (...
  • Respect this square
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • A SCHOOL brought roughly 50 youngsters into Myddelton Square, Finsbury, on Friday. I have no objection to children playing in the square. However, how can teachers and...
  • Pub serves as gateway
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • I DON’T recognise the words attributed to me (Lark in the Park pub to be demolished, May 17). I regret that there is now an imminent threat to the Lark in the...
  • It’s time to come clean
    Published: 24 May, 2013 • ISN’T it fantastic that we have such a great local newspaper that provides us with crucial public information that would otherwise disappear into the cracks of...