West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Published: 15 June 2007
Let’s have ‘pragmatic’ decisions for all please
TEN years ago, Karen Buck and the local Labour Party sat on their hands while Westminster City Council and the Department for Education and Skills, aided and abetted by the then chair of governors Jack Straw, attempted to push Pimlico School into a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme led by a property developer.
The victory by parents, staff and local residents drew early attention to the scandalous cost of PFI schemes in education and the NHS. > more
Gardens policy buried - THE comments by Councillor Audrey Lewis contained in your article last week completely miss the point (Gardens: growing concern... > more
Workers lose their weekends too - I AM sorry that Peter Cave has been disturbed by road works in Meard Street (Band on about the noise, June 8). At the... > more