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23rd September 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council have cut £26,000 in funding for St Luke’s Community Center. St Luke’s provides support to people with dementia, helping people get out of the house, providing an invaluable lifeline. At full council on 15th September, Barbara Sheridan from St Luke’s presented a 1,000 strong petition against the cuts. Islington Labour Councillor Cllr Burgess […]
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THE Boundary Commission has released its provisional recommendations to redraw UK constituencies into 600 equal-sized constituencies for 2018. Under these instructions from the Conservative government, this review has removed five seats from London. As part of that restructuring, Islington North is to be lost and the seat parcelled out between three neighbouring seats covering Camden, […]
10th September 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council’s has this week decided to revoke Fabric‘s licence. This decision was made despite the council earlier this year holding Fabric‘s practices as an example for other clubs to follow. Fabric has been an important part of London’s late night scene attracting people from across the world. In the last decade 50% of London’s music venues have […]
19th June 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has announced that Ernestas Jegorovas has been selected to be their candidate in the upcoming Barnsbury ward by-election. The election will take place on Thursday 14th July 2016. The selection follows an open election of members of Islington Green Party’s members in the west of the borough. The Green Party is […]
6th May 2016 by Islington Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating its best ever London election campaign after Sian Berry came third in the Mayoral vote and was elected to the London assembly alongside Islington’s Caroline Russell. Sian and Caroline replace Baroness Jenny Jones and Darren Johnson, who have both stepped down after 16 years of outstanding service at City Hall. […]
26th April 2016 by Islington Green Party
Cllr Caroline Russell, Green councillor for Highbury East ward and candidate for the London Assembly, said: “The decision to continue with this week’s junior doctors’ strikes was not taken lightly. People go into medicine because they want to treat patients and not to stand on a picket line to protect their jobs and patient safety. […]
21st April 2016 by Islington Green Party
The number of people who are classed as homeless in London has returned to levels not seen since the 1990s, but the Green Party’s Mayoral candidate Sian Berry, is concerned that the number of ‘hidden’ homeless is far higher in boroughs like Islington. An analysis from the Green Party has shown that London councils turn away nearly half […]
22nd March 2016 by Islington Green Party
Results from roadside nitrogen dioxide testing carried out by Islington Green Party show that nearly everywhere Islington’s air is exceeding EU limits for air quality. All but one of the results exceeded EU legal limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) with five locations coming in at more than 50% over the legal threshold. Thirty air pollution […]
26th February 2016 by Islington Green Party
Last night, the Labour dominated Islington Council voted down an amendment to the council’s annual budget from sole opposition councillor, Caroline Russell, that would have cleaned up Islington’s polluted air. Since the launch of the council’s own policy to ask drivers who park on Islington’s roads with their engines running to switch them off in […]
Bright Sparks, Islington’s award-winning repair and reconditioning project, has lost additional funding that would have protected and extended its services. The news came last night as an amendment to Islington Council’s budget from Green Party Councillor, Caroline Russell, was presented. The amendment, which would have secured funding for the worthwhile scheme, was voted down by all the […]
