Mark Pack

Islington Council is running a wildlife survey and urging residents to take part: Anyone with a garden, balcony or even a window box, can take part and there is a chance to enter our prize draw to win some fabulous wildlife gardening goodies! A free wildlife gardening pack is also available for all those who request [...] »

Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I've made: 143 graffiti 28 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 74 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 10 utility cabinets issues 9 street lights not working 20 pot holes 25 other issues ... for a grand total of 311, a rate which [...] »

Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I've made: 127 graffiti 21 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 65 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 5 utility cabinets issues 9 street lights not working 19 pot holes 24 other issues ... for a grand total of 272 reports so far [...] »

Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I've made: 85 graffiti 14 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 56 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 4 utility cabinets issues 8 street lights not working 16 pot holes 19 other issues ... for a grand total of 204 reports so far this [...] »

The headline mostly says it: there's a new local blog, about wildlife in Islington. It's called, drum roll please.........., Islington Wildlife. Looks quite fun and interesting so far and I like the touch of having sketches of the post authors at the bottom of each post.  »

Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I've made: 57 graffiti 12 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 42 dumped rubbish from private individuals 1 road name sign 2 utility cabinets 8 street lights 11 pot holes 9 others ... for a grand total of 142 reports so far this year, a rate which [...] »

You may have been following some of my travails trying to get repairs made to some of those telephone, broadband, traffic light etc boxes which appear on many pavements. Although  my own local council (Islington) is very good at dealing with them either directly themselves or passing on to the relevant company and ensuring the work [...] »

After my 515 reports to Contact Islington during 2009, I thought I'd keep a month by month record of how reporting goes during 2010. Here then are the scores on the doors for January, listing the number of reports I've made: 39 graffiti 4 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 21 dumped rubbish from private individuals 1 road name sign 2 [...] »

That's the challenge I ended up setting Contact Islington during 2009: 223 reports of graffiti 154 reports of dumped rubbish from private individuals 76 reports of dumped rubbish from the corporate sector (e.g. abandoned materials after road works) 18 broken street lights 44 other issues The vast majority have been handled efficiently and got right first time, for which praise is [...] »

According to industry estimates, the amount of wrapping paper thrown away in the UK at Christmas could stretch to the moon if each sheet was laid end to end. (If, like me, you live in Islington then you can find local recycling information here.)  »