Latest Letters

  • Estate claims
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • I OBJECT to claims about the recent works to the Holly Lodge estate that the Labour Party have presented to the Highgate ward in the recent copy of Labour Rose...
  • School cash
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WELL done our talented young musicians, pictured, who sang in the Royal Albert Hall last week (New Journal, April 22). They have made us Camdeners proud!...
  • People first
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • IN the run-up to the general & local council elections, can I make a plea for a non-party alternative called The People’s Charter. Launched in March...
  • College loss
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • AFTER only three years  a new “state of the art” building and Kilburns’ only adult educational facility, the North West London College, is...
  • High speed impact?
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • I APPLAUD the New Journal’s leader Comment columns about patronising top-down government with regard the proposed train route for the High Speed 2 (April 15...
  • Labour’s programme
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • NEXT week sees not only the national elections, but elections for who runs the council. Labour is committed to a progressive programme after four years of a...
  • I think that I shall never see
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WHILE looking out of my window on beautiful (leafy?) Lady Margaret Road, I was inspired to write about the once-magnificent London plane tree I have lived beside...
  • Last station
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WITH reference to Camden’s story across the centuries (April 22), the train map for 1907 to 1933 shows the final station as Archway. I always understood...
  • Farewell to our libraries
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • MIKE Clarke, Camden’s head of library customer services, accuses the New Journal of “inaccuracies” (Letters, April 22), but what about “the...
  • Unreliable 24 bus hogs terminal
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • ON the subject of bus termini (A bus terminus for Camden Town? April 22) I have often wondered why the large terminus at South End Green, is reserved exclusively...
  • True stats on boundary changes
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • BECAUSE of boundary changes voters in constituencies like Holborn and St Pancras cannot know the votes for each party in 2005. But they don’t have to rely...
  • Election Letters - ‘Mansion Tax’ punitive
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • CAN Ed Fordham, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn let us know if he supports his party’s proposed Mansion Tax, which would severely...
  • Letters to the Editor - Kind readers step up to pay single mum’s fine
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • SINCE Josie Hinton’s report (£1.50 tube fare turns into £200 nightmare”, April 16 and 25), we have received two donations from kind...
  • Letters to the Editor - Elections are just a sham
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WE’RE all in this together, are we?  Not just the bankers and speculators and the politicians who failed to regulate them. Which means we, the...
  • CNJ Comment - Leaders’ cop out, but the voters are making progress
    Published: 29 April, 2010 “WHAT we need is a cop on the Wall Street beat,” warned a ­Congress chairman in Washington on Tuesday at the Goldman Sachs inquiry. In Britain we need...