Latest Letters

  • Think again on Crown Estate sales
    Published: 20 August, 2010 • THE Crown Estate’s proposed sale of its four London residential estates, predominately providing affordable housing to key workers, has exposed the...
  • Beware speculators who wreck our communities
    Published: 20 August, 2010 • GO into one of the coffee outlets in Southampton Row, for example, and it is a sure bet that you will see a commuter sitting in front of his/her laptop. The purchase...
  • Rejected: no-brainer solution to health centre future
    Published: 20 August, 2010 • I WOULD like to congratulate Andrew Da Silva on his pertinent letter about Finsbury Health Centre (My challenge to people in power: show that you care, August 13)....
  • Protest put on hold
    Published: 20 August, 2010 • SHIRLEY Franklin has criticised Lib Dems for not going to a protest outside Whitehall organised by the Defend the Whittington Coalition.  Lib Dem campaigners...
  • Objections derided
    • OBJECTORS were treated in a shameful manner at the recent Islington Council planning committee meeting over the Odeon House development (A farce in five storeys, August 13). Most disgracefully...
  • Stop abuse of resident motorists
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • CAMDEN Council is abusing its powers by using council tax money to install CCTV cameras to trap motorists. On Sunday evening, I stopped my car for one second at the...
  • Tasty dishes
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • I WAS surprised to read ‘Poor reception for new dishes’, (Letters, July 22) as I have not looked back since they were fitted. I am disabled and...
  • Blow ’em out
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • LEAF-blowers: don’t you hate them (New Journal, August 12)?  Playing tennis last June, a “blower’’ actually came on the courts –...
  • Housing hypocrisy
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • HOUSING minister Grant Shapps is on record for saying that “…house building has been declining over the past few years and is at its lowest peacetime...
  • On yer private bike, please, Boris
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • AS the Tory doctrine favours out-sourcing, why has it entered into competition with the cycle hire company at Gabriel’s Wharf on the South Bank? London’s...
  • Savings
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • IF this government wants to save millions of pounds (Chancellor could start by taxing non-essentials, August 12) it should focus on scrapping at least 44 government...
  • Mopping up after them
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • I UNDERSTAND that Veolia took over cleaning the external public areas to give caretakers more time to concentrate on the internal public areas.  The caretaker...
  • ContactPoint axe threatens vulnerable kids
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • KEEPING children safe is one of our key roles as a local authority and we have always worked closely with our partners to protect children through sharing restricted...
  • A fine thanks for my recycling effort
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • WHEN Camden told me about their new recycling initiative, I was very happy indeed that they were taking this worrying global concern so seriously on a local level....
  • Sad death of Destiny
    Published: 19 August, 2010 • WE were sad and shocked about the murder of Destiny Lauren (pictured) at her home in Kentish Town.  It is encouraging that the murderer has been brought to...