Latest Letters

  • TRIBUTES TO ELLEN LUBY - Injustices
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • ELLEN Luby’s heart was in the right place and she cared deeply for those in need and the many injustices going on in Camden. She spoke her mind and did not...
  • TRIBUTES TO ELLEN LUBY - Unique way
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • WE were very saddened to hear about the passing away of Ellen Luby. Ellen was a true fighter who never gave up battling for those she felt who didn’t have a...
  • TRIBUTES TO ELLEN LUBY - Campaigns champion
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • ELLEN Luby was respected by many residents of Camden for all the support she gave them over 60 years. Since the 1950s she battled to defend the rights of the...
  • TRIBUTES TO ELLEN LUBY - A socialist fighter
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • I AND my family are so very sad indeed at the passing of Ellen Luby… we knew her for over 45 years in the rough and tumble of politics in the old St...
  • Government cap fits
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • NEARLY five million people in the the UK are claiming housing benefits. In the past five years the housing benefit bill has gone up by 50 per cent, to in excess...
  • Tower block fears
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • ON Tuesday there was a large meeting in the community centre in Belsize Road to examine plans for the regeneration of the Abbey area. After two hours of heated...
  • No option
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • ON Tuesday we heard the council and its consultants present the three options currently on the table in the Abbey Area Regeneration process. There was an...
  • What’s next?
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • AS predicted the coalition government have finally put the boot into Camden Council and other authorities with severe cuts to funding. We accept times are hard...
  • Beneficial
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • MY July 8 Forum piece evoked, as I expected, a range of reactions (more supportive than hostile at the Somers Town Festival where I spent most of July 10). You...
  • Local people need the Brill Place land
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • I REFER to correspondence about the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation proposed for Brill Place, King’s Cross (Letters, July 15). Much as I...
  • Tribal?
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Theo Blackwell has highlighted the need for Camden to explore the sharing of services with other London boroughs. I and other Conservative councillors...
  • Unjust cuts and the Thatcher legacy
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • THERE was anger at the town hall meeting (Packed meeting pledges to fight the coalition cuts, July 15) – an anger which can only grow, as the injustice of...
  • Poor reception for new dishes
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • IT is outrageous that Camden persists in forcing thousands of its leaseholders to stump up nearly £400 for a redundant, unneeded satellite dish system. The...
  • The pub that is our hub
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • MAY I congratulate councillors Chris Knight and Kirsty Roberts on their efforts to save the Duke of Hamilton from demolition. The Duke isn’t just a commercial...
  • Bias against bicyclists
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • ONCE again an anonymous correspondent jumps on the anti-cyclist band-wagon (Letters, July 15). While we cyclists constantly face this kind of bigotry, may I point...