Latest Letters

  • We won’t keep quiet on cuts to disabled services
    Published: 27th May, 2011 • I WAS pleased to read the coverage of the Hardest Hit demo in central London (‘It’s wrong to label us as work-shy’, May 13). It was the biggest...
  • Blood on our hands?
    Published: 27th May, 2011 • I WAS relieved to learn that Iranian refugees camped outside Amnesty’s head office  have given up their hunger strike (MP’s support ends asylum...
  • Long trek to park loos
    Published: 27th May, 2011 THE toilets (and changing facilities) at Tufnell Park playing fields are out of order. Apparently, a water tank burst and flooded the boiler so the facilities had to be...
  • Fresh wave of students courtesy Arsenal
    Published: 27th May, 2011 • ARSENAL’S performance in recent years is the antithesis of its motto, “Victory grows through togetherness”.  First, the fans. Imposing a six...
  • We’re still waiting for reassurance on estate gas safety
    Published: 27th May, 2011 • STEPHEN Kirrage, Homes for Islington (HfI) director of property services, acknowledges that gas safety can be worrying and that he wanted to set the record straight (...
  • Baskets are back again in Highbury Barn
    Published: 27th May, 2011 • THE article about the Labour council’s decision to do away with Islington’s prize-winning hanging baskets and floral displays did not mention one corner...
  • End-of-Life Rights Information Line
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • EILEEN Earnshaw (Let us die in dignity – with a break for a fag on the way, May 19) might be pleased to hear that on the day that her letter was published, the...
  • Camden’s Local Studies and Archives Centre
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • I WELCOME the May 19 article by Dan Carrier which reminded all of us of the wealth and interest in the archives of Camden’s Local Studies and Archives Centre....
  • Blame the owners for the demise of local papers
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • I AGREE with your May 19 Comment that local newspapers are vital to a free press and a healthy democracy. But I think you are wrong to lay the blame for the sad...
  • Education commission must show its ‘independence’
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • WE were pleased to attend the launch of Camden’s independent Education Commission at Acland Burghley school and to see so many people with a stake in education...
  • Freedom Pass loss could be a ‘final straw’
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • AS most severely mentally ill people in Camden are aware, Freedom Passes are being invalidated at the end of the month despite a 2015 expiry date.   The council...
  • It's too late to pollard trees – stop it if you can
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • SO-CALLED tree surgeons proceeded brutally to pollard the London plane trees in Doric Way, NW1.  I had been observing crows building their nest over the past...
  • We must prosecute cruelty to animals
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • FIRST I want to say that I was very impressed by the way you reported the very sad story about the inhumane conditions of the animals found in the pet shop in Queen...
  • What we could do to keep our music heritage in Camden
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • MANY thanks for your kind coverage of my appointment as Camden’s first Music Tsar. As a lifelong music lover I am delighted to have this role and look forward...
  • Provisional Licence no longer accepted as shoppers’ ID
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • IN Sainsbury’s in Kentish Town I was made aware of its new policy of not accepting a provisional driving licence as photo ID.  This policy is pedantic...