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  • MP record admirable
    Published: 2 April 2010 GORDON McIntosh is completely wrong to suggest that Emily Thornberry has “backed almost every piece of anti-terror legislation”. A cursory glance at her voting...
  • Floored by such waste
    Published: 2 April 2010 COULD someone explain to me why, in this time of belt tightening, Islington Council is replacing perfectly sound pavements in Upper Street with expensive, faux York stone....
  • Help pleas ignored
    Published: 2 April 2010 I CARE for an elderly, diabetic lady, who I visit in the evenings. On one occasion I found her panicking as she tried to inject her insulin, because no nurses had turned up...
  • Price of an emergency
    Published: 2 April 2010 I PAID and displayed on a visit to the Whittington Hospital. However, I ended up having an emergency C section, so naturally got a parking ticket. Islington Council ignored...
  • Beaux Arts Building - Foyer flats a sacrilege
    Published: 2 April 2010 I THINK I can speak for most residents of the Beaux Arts Building in Holloway when I say I was shocked to hear about the planning applications for more flats to be built, some...
  • Question was a joke
    Published: 2 April 2010 IN recent times, Islington Council questionnaires have become familiar to most people, particularly on delicate matters such as sex, religion and ethnicity.  The question...
  • Fantastic Vox
    Published: 2 April 2010 READERS may like to know that Vox Holloway, a community choir based at St Luke’s Church in Holloway – featured recently in the Tribune – raised a fantastic...
  • Let down over lifts
    Published: 2 April 2010 CANCELLATION of lifts to the overground platforms by Network Rail is the direct result of Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s ill-judged decision to shelve plans for step-...
  • Listening politicians?
    Published: 2 April 2010 THE Federation of Islington Tenants’ Associations is hosting a hustings at Islington town hall at 7pm on April 13. Confirmation of attendance has now been received from...
  • Cuts won’t go away
    Published: 2 April 2010 ON Saturday, the Daily Telegraph revealed that “internal NHS documents” show that health chiefs in London are planning major cutbacks to meet a £5billion...
  • What a way for officials to treat tenant with grievance
    Published: 2 April 2010 WHAT'S happening with public accountability when council officials determine who can attend meetings (council or otherwise) within council buildings by citing complainants as...
  • Floored by such waste
    Published: 2 April 2010 COULD someone explain to me why, in this time of belt tightening, Islington Council is replacing perfectly sound pavements in Upper Street with expensive, faux York stone....
  • Will the inspector listen?
    Published: 2 April 2010 DEVELOPERS will say anything to get their money-making plans rubber-stamped. At an inquiry into plans to build a large student block right next to St George’s Gardens...
  • Remember closed shop tyranny?
    Published: 2 April 2010 I REMEMBER the Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985 vividly. I would ask John Church (Our defeat paved way for today’s ills, Review, March 12) why they didn’t call a...
  • Improvements to Soho are going forward
    Published: 2 April 2010 AS a long-term Soho resident David Bieda (Square questions demand fair and square answers, Letters March 26) will be aware of a significant number of schemes for improvement...