Latest Letters

  • Why we need checks on sub-sub-sub-contractors
    Published: 26 February 2010 • I SUPPORT Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks as part of all contracts issued by Islington Council and Homes for Islington (Builders face checks for criminal...
  • Memo to the NHS: we are not a blank sheet of paper
    Published: 26 February 2010 • ACCORDING to Steve Conroy, “an NHS official” (who was introduced as “Rachel Tyndall’s assistant” at January’s Whittington...
  • Time bombs
    Published: 26 February 2010 • IT was related, in the distant past, that a tribe in what is now central Europe, selected its “old people” to be killed and eaten. Adopting this...
  • Let’s stop this mess
    Published: 26 February 2010 • HOW much longer must we endure dog fouling in this area? There appears no will,  nor action to deal with this,  as there is also the problem of rubbish...
  • Violence is the fear
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THE proposed fan zone for Regent’s Park during the World Cup concerns us greatly, particularly the potential for alcohol-fuelled violence spilling out into...
  • Objectors play the same old game
    Published: 26 February 2010 • WHENEVER I see headlines like Red card for park’s World Cup, (February 12), I know that it is because these same famous faces live in or around one of the...
  • Safety first
    Published: 26 February 2010 • DF GOWERS talks about objectors to the World Cup football fest in Regent’s Park, as being “nimbys” (World Cup winner in the park, February 19)....
  • Regent’s Park football fan fest is stuff of madness
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THE Greater London Authority’s proposal to allow a World Cup “fan fest” on Gloucester Green, for just over three weeks, would be wholly inimical...
  • Will nannying put paid to my Pimm’s in the square?
    Published: 26 February 2010 • DOES Westminster Council want to turn Soho into Surbiton?  Soho Square looks better with its renovated hut but, with horror, I also now see a new edict on...
  • Art with a green hue
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THANK-YOU for Peter Gruner’s report on my Hugging Trees exhibition at Islington Museum, under Finsbury Library, until March 20 (Great art grows on trees,...
  • Hot water on its way
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THE work to improve the hot water system at Spa Green estate is extensive; and to avoid having to shut down the system completely over the winter months, these...
  • Losing out on Freedom Passes
    Published: 25 February 2010 • SOME readers have complained that the current renewal of Freedom Passes by Camden Council to old age pensioners and the disabled has been chaotic, but people with...
  • How many need help?
    Published: 25 February 2010 • I THANK the New Journal for highlighting my neighbour’s terrible situation. (Man left to live in ‘horror film’, February 18). Camden Council...
  • Living in a ‘horror film’
    Published: 25 February 2010 • TOM Foot’s story (Man left to live in ‘horror film’ – February 18) was shocking but enlightening!  Unfortunately, in this particular...
  • Improving our tenants’ homes is right priority
    Published: 25 February 2010 • YOUR article (Bonanza at expense of taxpayers February 18) is misleading in many ways. Camden Council is, as you report, selling a small number of empty homes that...