Latest Letters

  • Appalling
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • I HAVE just returned from holiday to this news. I feel as if I have been kicked in the stomach.  These plans for our estates are appalling. I didn’t...
  • Curious
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • LOOKING at my notes from the November 2 Gospel Oak Labour meeting at which residents and councillors discussed the issue of regeneration, we were assured by...
  • Challenges
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • THE council is facing serious challenges to improving homes and services in the Gospel Oak area with reduced funding from central government.  We are keen to...
  • Lessons
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • THE proposed huge new development that involves razing much of Gospel Oak’s housing to the ground and beginning again is a real concern. At this stage I...
  • Put people’s health needs above plans for palace
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • COULD the 69-people convalescent home and dementia hospital at Athlone House, Hampstead Heath, be a dividing line between the Labour government’s...
  • The eternal killing fields
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • BRAVO Illtyd Harrington (The killing fields still yield a rich harvest of death, November 18).  Your best piece yet with John Pudney’s message: “...
  • Memories of art school
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • I WRITE in response to the article on the St John’s Wood Art School (November 11). I am 91 but at the age of 16, I was a student at the school in Elm Tree...
  • Knotweed crumble
    • I WAS dismayed at the criticism of those who forage on Hampstead Heath (Foragers “cashing in” on the Heath, November 18). Commercial foraging can be destructive, but those of us...
  • Thanks for hampers
    Published: 25 November, 2010 • THANK you to the New Journal for conducting your annual Christmas hamper appeal. My neighbour lost her husband over a year ago and was clearly lonely and isolated...
  • We support tower staff
    • THE Office of the Public Guardian has embarked on a significant programme of change (Blow to shops as tower workers face move north, November 12). Part of this involves moving business out of...
  • Chemical weapons
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • ROISIN Ni Corrain reminds readers that many Irish fought in the British forces during World War II and that many of them died in action (The Irish fought too,...
  • What are they hiding?
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • WEEKS ago I made a Freedom of Information request to have itemised the Homes for Islington (HfI) resident board directors’ individual yearly expenses from...
  • Veterans missed chance to show that unity is strength
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • MAY I explain why I am now an ex-member of Islington Veterans Association (IVA)? The 2009 and 2010 Poppy appeals were the perfect time to assist the Royal British...
  • Generations of pupils will regret this school decision
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • IT would not be right to let the letter by David Barry, chairman of Ashmount School governors, go unchallenged (Building fit for school, November 5). The new...
  • Why we compromised on tuition fees
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • AS the father of two teenagers and of a younger child, all hoping to go to university or college, I’ve been following the debate over tuition fees closely....