Latest Letters

  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • IF Islington Labour council leader, Catherine West, is claiming the credit for saving £350,000 by entering into a consortium with other councils to buy...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • JUST for the record, I never described my neighbourhood as a “nondescript backwater” (Street gardening… the idea that kept growing, July 30) and...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • THE photographs with your lovely article (Young and old click as they turn camera on the community, July 30) were really great and a pleasure to look at.  They...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • FOLLOWING your report (Top solicitor to take on scourge of CCTV camera, July 30) I have requested a full report from Islington Council, who I believe are sailing...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • I AM fortunate enough to be chairman of the Transformation Trust, a children’s charity which recently celebrated its first birthday at the O2 arena.  This...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • I MUST draw readers’ and hopefully the Fairness Commission’s attention to the ongoing issue of the double charging of council estate residents. ...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • ISLINGTON Council could quite easily save a substantial amount of money by simply not carrying out renovation or refurbishment work which is unwanted and unnecessary...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • AS a resident of the most northerly part of the borough, continually overlooked by Islington Council, the only thing that has gladdened my heart over the last two...
  • Published: 06 August, 2010 • AGAIN the Tribune has put a far more positive spin on events (Reforms could mean health centre lifeline, July 23) than the situation deserves.  The primary care...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • I AM a commissioner on the Islington Fairness Commission and a telephone engineer with a trade union background. Can I respectfully ask James Bainbridge to reconsider...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • AS I held my corner of the “Save Finsbury Health Centre” banner outside NHS Islington offices this morning, a young man stopped to tell me he was too...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • WE all know young people are influenced by what they see around them. It is ridiculous that cigarettes are openly on sale in newsagents and supermarkets, often...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • I AM worried that in this time of financial stringency, the Home Library Service has the practice of “depositing” books with readers in care homes,...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • I’M not sure about the percentage of vacancies at Canonbury Primary School, which my older children attended and where my youngest child attended the...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • OUR charity hostel for the homeless, Shelter From The Storm, has to find new premises as we have to leave our current home in Elmore Street, Canonbury, by August...