Latest Letters

  • Published: 25 June, 2010 • MY father, Alec Rider Fincham, died in 1965 having never spoken of his family. Now, in my early 70s I am trying to research his family and early years. He was...
  • Published: 25 June, 2010 • TWENTY-four years ago I was still living in Israel and I didn’t notice that we Israelis were “under attack from Arabs and Palestinians for 24 years...
  • Published: 25 June, 2010 • IT was good to see the review of the amazing Electric Hotel (‘Hotel’ wins extended stay, Review, June 18). What did not come across was how hard the...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • I WOULD like to give a big thank-you to our local NHS Trust and Islington social services. I was in University College Hospital on Boxing Day with a broken arm but I...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE contrast between Richard Rosser’s entertaining letter and the sad anonymous one following it (June 4) led me to consider a better possible use for NHS...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • I HAD cause to ask the tenant liaison officer for Apollo, a subcontracting construction company working on behalf of Homes for Islington (HfI), why it was leaving the...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • WHEN are America and her companies going to pay for the clean-up of Devon and Cornwall resulting from the break-up of the Torrey Canyon in 1967.  They have always...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • WHEN I was campaigning against the school at which I was teaching, Islington Green, becoming an academy back in 2007, I wrote to the then Lib Dem education spokeswoman...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE plans to slash staff numbers at stations around the Emirates Stadium are alarming to say the least.  Finsbury Park station is one of the busiest in London...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE Tribune’s recent articles on the Gaza aid flotilla illustrated a lack of insight into the Israelis’ and Palestinians’ plight. The Israelis have...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • IT is good to know that residents in Clerkenwell have backed plans to introduce a designated public place order so that police can control the consumption of alcohol...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • MANY residents will be somewhat confused by the continual reference within Homes for Islington’s (HfI) latest newsletter to “HfI’s tenants”....
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • A WHOLE lot of stuff has been said in the past few months about Archway and regeneration possibilities. I had even heard through the grapevine that a newly-victorious...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • A RECENT anonymous letter questioned the quality of care given by agency staff to elderly and vulnerable residents at home (Checking on carers, June 4) . I was...
  • Published: 18 June, 2010 • IT was amusing to think that Boris Johnson might take an interest in a puddle on Highbury Fields (Pensioner asks Mayor to ‘fix’ leak, June 4). But what is...