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  • Total overpayments to suppliers could top £500,000
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • IT is totally unacceptable for any taxpayers’ money to be wasted by a council, let alone the large amounts so far revealed. This is particulary true during...
  • Systems are improving
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • THE Tribune quotes Councillor Phil Kelly as saying that the lack of formal contracts between the council and four out of 10 of its suppliers is “deplorable...
  • Shameful fiasco
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • THANKS to the Tribune’s front-page article we are now aware of some of the endemic problems exposed in the management of Islington Council. I was extremely...
  • Why send 20 police officers to deal with bus fare cheats?
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • YOUR correspondent (Cops target clubbers, July 2) has hit on a very interesting point. In these difficult times, how are police resources allocated, especially in...
  • No records lost, no money mislaid, no ‘sloppy admin’
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • YOUR front-page report (The millions ‘mislaid in sloppy’ admin, July 2) is simply not accurate. No money has been mislaid and it is a shame that a...
  • Even the Lib Dem fig leaf can’t hide shame of these Tory cuts
    Published: 9 July, 2010 WE were not surprised when Conservatives in Parliament voted for an unfair, unjust and unequal Budget. They believe in protecting the rich and the powerful before...
  • End health centre saga
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • THE Tribune’s positive spin on the minister’s words about Finsbury Health Centre made for a charming read, but also made it seem that the centre campaign is...
  • Homes in need of care
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • WHEN One Housing Group took control of Patchwork Community Housing Association in 2005, it said there would be little change (Fury over ‘unwanted’ care home...
  • Football’s academies
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • SO let the real sport begin. What we football fans are truly good at are blame games combined with emotional bloodletting. The truth is that we fail to invest in...
  • Take test or give up car
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • MARY Cosh has now enlisted the support of MP Emily Thornberry in her campaign to avoid a driving test (MP calls for U-turn on driving re-sit, June 25). But surely her...
  • Picnicking hordes who can’t be bothered to clear up mess
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • HIGHBURY Fields is renowned as the largest open space in Islington, an amenity to be enjoyed by all during the summer months. Now that the latest heatwave is upon...
  • Now let’s cut salaries of 21 members of £100,000 club
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • CONGRATULATIONS to council leader Councillor Catherine West for saying she will cut £50,000 off the salary of the next chief executive’s income (Salary...
  • Long-term cost of cuts
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • ISLINGTON Law Centre works with some of the most disadvantaged people in the borough and it was with a sense of dismay that we learnt of the welfare benefit cuts in...
  • Concerns remain
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • IN response to Councillor Joe Caluori’s letter (June 25), I want to make it clear I do not “fully support” Labour’s Fairness Commission yet...
  • Rail’s bad vibrations
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • THOSE who claim that Primrose Hill residents would be unable to hear trains running at 100mph-plus just 20 metres below their homes are talking nonsense. I have...