Residents on the Elthorne Estate have welcomed the installation of a new CCTV camera to monitor a trouble hotspot near Partington Close. Problems – including loitering, anti-social drinking and drug taking – have been building in a walkway in the North East side of the estate, near to Elthorne Park. The local community felt that CCTV [...]

Tuesday 3rd January was the first day back at work after the Christmas break, for many commuters in Islington.  It was also the first time in 2012 that many will have noticed the huge, inflation-busting fare increases imposed on them by the Conservative Mayor of London. At every train station in Islington –tube, overground and [...]

The Nation, is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States of America. It was established by people slave trade abolitionists in 1865 and has seen contributions from several illustrious writers including: Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Christopher Hitchens, T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Maynard Keynes and Islington’s very own George [...]

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Stand up to the government’s unfair cuts on our community and sign up here to be a part of our St Mary’s campaign team.  “I know the importance of our local police and I will fight the Conservative Mayor’s plans to cut Islington’s Safer Neighbourhood Team sergeants.  I will stand up for a fairer Islington [...]

Yesterday, a delegation from Islington Pensioners Forum travelled to City Hall to deliver a clear message to the Mayor of London and the big energy companies – they must do more to help people who are falling into fuel poverty. The delegation – which included both of Islington’s Older People’s Champions and Cllr Janet Burgess, [...]

By Cllr Janet Burgess, Executive Member for Health and Adult Social Care Islington Labour doesn’t like to shirk a challenge.  Which is a good job, because under the Government’s new funding formula we face the biggest cuts in cash terms of any London borough. One of the major challenges we are tackling is fuel poverty [...]

Islington residents today celebrated the success of a local campaign to save the Plus Bus route 812. The Bus Route came under threat last year due to the Conservative/Liberal government’s unprecedented step of cutting Islington’s budget by the highest level in London.  Islington’s Labour Council wanted to save the Plus Bus by using the annual [...]

Since launching our campaign to spend £50,000 of Olympics money on sports events for the young – instead of disposable decorative bunting – we have received many supportive emails from local people. You can read all about the campaign here, and see some of the positive feedback here.

Islington Labour Leader, Cllr Catherine West has written to Sebastian Coe to ask him to allow the borough to spend Olympics money on sports events for the young, instead of disposable decorative bunting. The Mayor’s Office has made £50,000 available to every London borough, but has insisted they spend this on celebratory “dressing” to be [...]