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  • Ewan votes with his feet
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • I NOTE that one of Britain’s leading actors has quit residence in Britain for Los Angeles, California. What was the reason? According to a recent...
  • ‘From basket case to better future, thanks to Lib Dems’
    Published: 16 April, 2010 Liberal Democrats are proud of their record and will do more to make Islington fairer, says Terry Stacy • Without a doubt, Islington will be one of the places to...
  • All Greek Orthodox Easter at day centre
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • TABLE-dancing, beer bottle-balancing and plenty of music enlivened the annual Greek Easter cele­bration at Alsen Day Centre, Finsbury Park, writes Raj Sandhu...
  • Pedestrians locked out
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • PLEASED as I was to see Leo Chapman raise his glass of beer (Glasses raised as walkers win right to stroll in the park by canal, April 2), I knew after many...
  • Crossing on the way?
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • IN December and January, the Green Party took a petition around calling on Islington Council to provide a new pedestrian crossing across Drayton Park, near the...
  • Sentenced to database
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • GORDON Brown has criticised Tory and Lib Dem plans to scale down and remove DNA profiles of persons who have not been convicted of a crime. He says DNA helps put...
  • Machine politicians
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • AS an independent candidate standing in the local government elections, I am allowed to spend just over £1,000 to let the 8,000 electors in Canonbury ward...
  • All this work just to prevent cyclists having to dismount
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • RESIDENTS living near the Danbury Street entrance to the Regent’s Canal towpath are baffled by the works being carried out by British Waterways to the ramp...
  • Tories out of polls race
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • I READ with some surprise the letter from a Conservative in Canonbury saying she had been talking to a woman on the Marquess estate who said the Lib Dems told...
  • Where was our MP?
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • LABOUR rammed through its draconian, illiberal and controversial Digital Economy Bill in the “wash-up” the other day. It had to rely on the Tories...
  • Wanted: an opposition
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • THE three potential parties of government (Conservative, Labour and Lib Dems) are agreed that deep cuts in government spending will be necessary to fill the...
  • Threat to a masterpiece
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • LIB Dems are backing residents’ efforts to save the historic lobby of the Beaux Arts Building in Manor Gardens, Upper Holloway, and get the building listed...
  • Time to be adaptable
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • WHAT is Gordon McIntosh complaining about (Mandatory internment, April 9)? He’s been unemployed for nearly a year and says there are no jobs for college...
  • Are constituents or colleagues upset by this?
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • I AM unusually intrigued by the West End Extra Diary, (Just get on with it – as Ian might have said, April 9). It related how Councillor Frixos Tombolis,...
  • A word…
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • Why has there so far been in the electoral campaign no mention of the “A” word – Afghanistan?  Besides all its death and destruction, the...