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  • Show a bit of respect
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • ATTACKING old people has become fashionable lately as defenceless pensioners become victims without any compassion shown to them. Old people need respect, as well as...
  • Exciting art building
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • AFTER five years of planning, fundraising and construction, Drayton Park primary school is proud to announce the opening of its new community art building. In the...
  • Fiasco of a funeral
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • ANDREW Myer (Thatcher’s dire legacy, April 19) doesn’t touch half of Thatcher’s legacy: the withdrawal of milk from schoolchildren, dividing...
  • Is this a better designed street or a way of milking confused drivers?
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • THE controversy surrounding the Drayton Park width-restriction layout exposes Islington Council’s muddled thinking about managing our roads and an apparent lack...
  • Polluted playground damages children’s health
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • WHY in these cash-strapped times is Islington spending money refurbishing the playground in Archway Park? In eight years of consultation in Archway we have never...
  • When one case is one too many
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • I APOLOGISE for any offence caused by my comments. FGM is appalling and can never be excused. One case is one too many. But huge progress has been made and what once...
  • We’re tackling issue that’s very much today’s problem
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • FOLLOWING the lecture given by Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, to mark the 100th anniversary of Manor Gardens Centre and the response of Councillor...
  • Come clean about sending our waste to nature reserve
    Published: 26 April, 2013 • THE Tribune’s excellent exposé of the secretive actions of North London Waste Authority (NLWA) and its Islington members, councillors Richard Greening...
  • Road hump fiasco ahead?
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • THANK you for your article highlighting how the council will be spending even more money on its new width restriction in Drayton Park (Crash spot safety work, April...
  • Trident’s billions
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • RARELY is the connection made between the cuts, which hurt the poor not the rich, and the billions of pounds due to be spent on replacing Trident nuclear missile...
  • At last, a cut that would suit everyone
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • TODAY, we have thousands of able-bodied people in Islington claiming benefits because there is a shortage of work, due to modern technology and the state of the...
  • Shadow of planning laws
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • ISLINGTON councillors have united to condemn government proposals to relax planning laws for a three-year period and labelled them a “recipe for disaster...
  • That’s the way Les is
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • I WAS delighted to see the article, with photograph, about bus driver Les Peacock (Salute to rule-breaking bus driver who goes extra mile, April 12). Les and his...
  • Who’s swanning around?
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • RESIDENTS are being encouraged to help create a “swan soap opera” by tweeting sightings of the season’s first cygnets in the capital (#swanstory)....
  • Height of canal folly?
    Published: 19 April, 2013 • SURELY your article on the canal cycleway was intended for the April 1 issue (Riding high on canal cycleway, April 12). R BORZELLO N1