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  • Funding axe puts future of Nag’s Head concerts at risk
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • ISLINGTON Mental Health Forum was founded by Islington resident John Hart in 1994 and was formed to preserve the rights and promote the  activities of mental...
  • Boris jeopardises safety... just to cut tax
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • LONDON Fire and Emergency Planning Authority launched its public consultation on the draft Fifth London Safety Plan this week. The plan includes the proposal to close...
  • One boss for hospitals
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • I SUPPORT your readers’ views that Whittington Hospital must remain open as a complete general hospital. Now that a number of foundation NHS trusts have become...
  • Try asking a self-serve kiosk for help?
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • ISLINGTON Unison has serious concerns about the introduction and implementation of self-serve in Islington libraries. Not only has this been used to cut nine posts out...
  • Back MP’s rent cap Bill
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • I REALISE from his address that Andy Kyprios (Time to cap rising rents, March 1) may not have been aware that our MP, Jeremy Corbyn, has held two public consultation...
  • Emirates cash cow
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • THE news that Arsenal has become the subject of a takeover proposal by rich investors puts the question of its summer concerts in a new light. The club claims it...
  • Anti-semitic witch’s brew
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • IT wasn’t me who asked if Wagner was “really an  anti-semite”, but the paper’s added headline (Wagner’s anti-semitism, February 22...
  • Water bills pump up investors’ earnings
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • WATER rates have just been hiked along with gas and electricity prices. In the case of water you may be shocked by the findings of an investigation by corporatewatch....
  • Benefit cuts nightmare
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • AS an advocate for a small charity in Islington working with people with learning disabilities, I have experienced service users “suffering” the ordeal of...
  • Wobbly Tuesday showed what the anti-war march achieved
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • THIS week marks the 10th anniversary of “Wobbly Tuesday” – one of the biggest secrets of the Iraq War. As I note in my new book about the anti-Iraq...
  • We must band together to oppose blow-by-blow attacks on NHS
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • JOE Liddane, from Whittington Hospital, called a public meeting on Monday for a “discussion” of the hospital’s plans for its future. Leaflets were...
  • Let’s really fly the flag
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • WHY can’t the English flag be hoisted above Islington town hall for more than just one day of the year? I believe that as a borough in the capital of England,...
  • Time to cap rising rents
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • REGARDING housing benefit cuts, why does nobody, particularly those in government, talk about tackling the root of the problem – rents are too high? The...
  • We’ve nothing to fear from urban foxes
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • FOXES are more visible as they become accustomed to city life. People should be reassured that just because they often come closer, looking for food or just being...
  • On the carpet
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • WE have been told that the Whittington Hospital is short of funds, yet in the staff area of the ground floor new carpets have been laid. One side clearly doesn’t...