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  • Tribune of the people
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • I WISH to thank Peter Gruner and Amy Smith for the excellent support and coverage they have given Islington Mental Health Forum over the past year or so. I would...
  • About-turn on ‘car-free’
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • WHEN Islington Council granted planning permission for the NCH development in Highbury, in summer 2010, it was on a clear understanding it was a “car-free...
  • Language barrier
    Jennette Arnold Published: 29 March, 2013 • THE Secretary of State for Education has recently announced his plans to exclude the teaching of prescribed languages from primary schools and only...
  • CCTV upgrade will plug in hundreds of cameras on estates
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • ONE of your correspondents asks why Islington Council is upgrading CCTV (Must we spend £2m on CCTV when crime is falling? March 22). There’s a simple...
  • Does this mean that all our fruit trees are under threat?
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • I FOUND the response from Islington’s environment chief Councillor Paul Smith to residents’ anger about the chopping down of a healthy mature tree...
  • Families who struggle on need a break
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • THE Care Quality Commission has released a shocking report which said that in 78 out of 151 local NHS areas people with dementia who lived in care homes were more...
  • Back social care with cash
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • THE recent Joint Committee report on the Draft Care and Support Bill detailed many positive reforms. However, the Joint Committee’s recognition that the...
  • Threatened fire station is a piece of the capital’s history
    Anti-cuts protesters at Clerkenwell fire station Published: 29 March, 2013 • I UNDERSTAND that Clerkenwell Fire Station is being earmarked for closure. This fire station should not be...
  • Greens now only alternative to Labour
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • AS Green Party candidate in the Junction ward by-election I would like to thank all those who voted Green last Thursday. We maintained our second place in the ward...
  • When bureaucracy can prove fatal
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • THE letter from Angela Sinclair-Loutit (Preserve this beautiful historic souvenir, March 22) was very well composed. I resigned from a senior nursing position in...
  • Remember, this is not a country village
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • HAVING seen the exhibition of the Mount Pleasant development, I feel that the scheme is well designed, if a little unimaginative (Will the Royal Mail deliver...
  • Your voice on health
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • HEALTHWATCH Islington is the new local champion for users of health and social care services. A launch event is being held tomorrow (Saturday) at Resource for London...
  • Talented musicians boost confidence
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • PLEASE let me add my support for continued funding of Islington Mental Health Forum, whether by Islington Council or other funders (Funding axe puts future of Nag...
  • Threat still hangs over University Three
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • AFTER thousands around the world petitioned and hundreds emailed the vice-chancellor, including MPs from Islington and Hornsey and Wood Green – not forgetting...
  • Must we spend £2m on CCTV when crime is falling?
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • WHY is Islington Council persisting with its proposal to spend £2m on enhanced CCTV, despite a fall in youth, knife and gun crime across the borough (as...