Latest Letters

  • Help from the union
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • I WRITE to correct inaccuracies in your article (Readers help to pay for Jackie’s funeral, April 21). I am the chair of Camden Unison and Maddy Cooper is the...
  • Mike has always been a great coach
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • AS one of the many people Mike Jackson has trained through the years, I can’t believe Camden are letting Mike go.  Mike spotted me as a runner when I was...
  • Heath’s tranquillity and beauty is so important
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • FOR some years, we of the Athlone House Working Group have been campaigning, and working with Camden and others to preserve and restore Athlone House, the last...
  • If block of flats goes bang, remember, we warned you
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • WHEN I read Martin Rutherford’s letter and related article (‘Lives are in danger’ alert over estate’s new gas pipes, April 15), I was torn...
  • Look out, you could have a mast on your doorstep
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • RESIDENTS are fighting a battle with Vodafone over its plans to erect a 15-metre mobile phone mast at the corner of Dalmeny Avenue and Carleton Road, Holloway....
  • Losers in social homes stakes
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • WESTMINSTER Council’s much-trumpeted, multi-million pound housebuilding programme is set to deliver hundreds of new affordable homes in the borough, it claims...
  • Trucks, 4x4s, tractors... it’s the park Motor Show
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • WHY is there no talk of reducing expenditure on the mutilation of trees while so many front-line services and jobs are to go?  At Waterlow Park in Highgate on...
  • My praise for police
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • AS local councillor for the Elthorne estate in Archway I would like to thank police for their professionalism and safe conduct during Saturday’s incident....
  • Claimants lose out
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • I WAS shocked, although not surprised, to learn that since private company Atos won the contract to assess Islington residents for employment and support allowance 69...
  • Our ancient trees at risk
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • IN the era of concern about global warming it is depressing to realise that Islington Council feels it can fell our ancient trees without consulting residents. ...
  • Just cut out all the treats
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • IT’S parents who need to be targeted with regard to what their children eat, especially small children (Obesity plan failing, April 8).  When I go to the...
  • Roamer life is easier
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • THE Roamer parking scheme is more than welcome. I find it logical since we, the council tax-payers, do not have to worry every time we park for a short while in our...
  • Safer way to cycle
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • EVERY death of a cyclist in a road accident is a tragedy (Paula death sparks bike safety pleas, April 7).   It is also, of course, beyond doubt that all relevant...
  • Cloud over solar power
    • I AM the “unlikely environmental hero” (that made my children laugh) who was the subject of your report (Sun sets on pensioner’s bid to bring solar power to flats, April 8)....
  • £7,500 tag on census
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • ISLINGTON could lose out on millions of pounds of government funding over the next ten years – in addition to the harshest government cuts any of us have ever...