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  • Classrooms too small
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • I WAS told last year by the St Aloysius head that it was to be a state-of-the-art school, but now I know it’s not. The teaching is second to none. My son is in...
  • Theft by moonlight
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • AS a favour, my friend collected my 15-year-old daughter from a party on Saturday and brought her home at 11.30pm. She parked in Highbury New Park for...
  • Cops target clubbers
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • WITH regard to the alcohol control zone imposed in Clerkenwell, I now read with some considerable degree of incredulity that the very same Islington police who...
  • No new money for the ‘free’ schools
    Published: 1 July, 2010 EDUCATIONISTS are divided over academies, but school improvement is all about improving teaching and learning, not just buildings and status, argues Alasdair Smith (above) IS...
  • Back to the 1970s and the smell of rubbish piling up
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I WOULD like to highlight the incompetencies of Enterprise, which collects the general rubbish from Popham 1 estate. Since January, there had been five...
  • Estate is kept awake by the sound of late, late football
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • RESIDENTS of Spa Green estate found the front-page story (MP Jeremy Corbyn hits out at 3am noisy drunkards, June 11) particularly poignant as few of us had had...
  • Sainsbury’s supporter
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I’M glad that the new Labour administration has decided to continue the council’s Shop Local campaign, which started under the Liberal Democrats. The...
  • Look out for artwork
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • READERS may be interested to know that today (Friday) marks the beginning of Islington Exhibits, a 10-day exhibition extravaganza that brings together over 300 artists...
  • Will cuts hit schools?
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • LOCAL Labour politicians have been scaremongering about the government programme to improve local secondary schools – Building Schools for the Future – in...
  • Call halt to Euro-circus
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE constant journeying of the European Parliament, once a month, between Brussels and Strasbourg is a complete waste of time and money – not to mention the...
  • Spiteful coalition
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE previous Lib Dem council opposed free school meals and now the new Con-Dem coalition government has launched its cuts, starting predictably with...
  • Wanted: real experts
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • WE are told Islington Council will now have a Fairness Commission and an “expert committee” to make centralised planning decisions (Action, not more...
  • Paying for cheap flights
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I AM very disappointed. Two weeks ago, we booked flights from London to the French town of Limoges with Ryanair. The cost of £240 was paid by card. At the...
  • Trauma of eviction bid
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • IT is with disgust that I read about widow Elsie Sugerman being threatened with eviction over a gas check (You’ll be evicted, widow is warned, June 18). I...
  • Say No to demolition
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I WENT to the meeting on Monday night about St Aloysius College. Why on earth would you build an L-shaped room when everyone knows a classroom should be...