Latest Letters

  • Cathedral of science? No thanks
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • LABOUR councillor Peter Brayshaw’s response on Monday night to a deputation from Somers Town protesting about the “cathedral of science” proposed...
  • No new money for the ‘free’ schools
    Published: 1 July, 2010 EDUCATIONISTS are divided over academies, but school improvement is all about improving teaching and learning, not just buildings and status, argues Alasdair Smith (above) IS...
  • Big money for what exactly?
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • I HAVE read with concern that Ms Moira Gibb, CEO of Camden Council, is paid a salary of £199.961 plus a Performance Bonus of £15,997. Not only is such...
  • Agenda to undermine your rights?
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • CONCERNING the HS2 under Primrose Hill, those who claim that local residents would be unable to hear trains running at 100mph-plus just 20 metres below their homes...
  • More than 800 people want to keep pub
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • THANK you again for your support to the Save the Duke campaign (Save our traditional pub, Letters June 17). To let your readers know, we presented the petition to...
  • End of line for strikers
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • I BELIEVE Johnny Bucknell to be a good councillor. However, his letter (Driverless trains, June 24) betrays a lack of any knowledge about the subject matter. He...
  • Threat to good books
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • THERE are significant numbers of young people who make use of the Swiss Cottage Library, and the British Library, but show little awareness of how the resources...
  • UK online is vital service
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • NASH ALI, the new Labour leader of Camden, announced on Monday that Labour was restoring the funding to UK online centres so callously cut by the previous...
  • Back to the 1970s and the smell of rubbish piling up
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • I WOULD like to highlight the incompetencies of Enterprise, which collects the general rubbish from Popham 1 estate. Since January, there had been five...
  • Estate is kept awake by the sound of late, late football
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • RESIDENTS of Spa Green estate found the front-page story (MP Jeremy Corbyn hits out at 3am noisy drunkards, June 11) particularly poignant as few of us had had...
  • Take action to enforce planning laws
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE spotlight is on Camden Council’s lamentable approach to planning enforcement. The continuing failure to take effective enforcement action certainly...
  • The colourful life of Soho
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • WHILE Soho is bereft of much greenery it does have many colourful residents and Sebastian Horsley was one. The Soho Theatre is currently running a play about our late...
  • Bread and circuses
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • WE hear a lot about the necessity of cuts to pay the nation’s debts. So I wonder about the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. The games are about...
  • Breath of fresh air?
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • FIFTY years ago the smog and pea-soup pollution affecting London only came to an end through the Clean Air Act.  Today we face a problem just as big. The tiny...
  • Tough times are ahead
    Published: 25 June, 2010 • THE coalition government’s first Budget demonstrates the perilous state of the nation’s finances and how the level of spending of previous years is no...