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  • We must complain
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • I CANNOT stress the importance of filing stage one and two formal complaints to Homes for Islington (HfI), Islington Council and the ombudsman. I have spent more...
  • How secure is this unit?
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • CONCERN has been expressed about the way that Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust manages to look after people and protect the public, its own staff and patients...
  • Curb police car speeds
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • I LIVE in a street near Highbury Park which is probably one of the most dangerous stretches of road for pedestrians in London. Using the zebra crossing at the...
  • My red card for pay-to-play football pitches at our park
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • AS a local resident and past chairman of the Friends of Finsbury Park, I would like to register my strong objections to the scheme to site commercial five-a-side...
  • Health centre: it’s a case of decision made, matter over
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • BARB Jacobson’s letter on the struggle to keep Finsbury Health Centre open was timely (End health centre saga, July 2). It seems that the well-renumerated...
  • Architectural gems deserve preserving, not vandalising
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • THIS week, we heard that a planning application to build a huge, ugly additional storey on top of our homes at Northview in Holloway was withdrawn. Many thanks to...
  • Scrutinise ‘Big Boys’
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • BEING among those the Tribune rightly described as “shocked” as we listened to the long list of millions of pounds of council financial...
  • Our thanks after fall
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • ON Thursday, July 1, on leaving Culpepper Gardens, my husband had a nasty fall. I would like to thank the two gentlemen who helped him up and lent him tissues to...
  • Builders on my balcony
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • AT 8am on Monday, July  5, I was woken from my sleep by the shadowy figures of two men who had climbed onto my first-floor balcony with a ladder and...
  • Help firms survive cuts
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • WITH impending cuts within many local government departments and the news that Business Link is to be officially cut, now is the perfect time to keep business...
  • Forum - Handing over your health service - Judy Davis on white paper (Liberating the NHS) - GP commissioning and an increased role for the private sector.
    Published: 16 July, 2010 NOW private companies are finally to get their hands on billions of pounds of the National Health Service budget to buy care from …other private companies, warns...
  • Schools will get rebuilds
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • IN A recent Tribune report on funding for planned major improvements at Islington secondary schools, Labour councillors claimed the government had put this funding...
  • Lib Dems fail cuts test
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • WE were not surprised when Conservatives in Parliament voted for an unfair, unjust and unequal Budget. But the Liberal Democrats had a choice. And they chose to...
  • Cloud over our homes
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • ONCE upon a time there was a well-loved, well-kept place in London called Islington. However, one day a dark cloud came across and told Islington Council it should...
  • Is a closed club fair?
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • WE were disappointed to hear that within five days of the Mayor and Burgesses of Islington Council receiving our petition of more than 400 signatures to reopen the...