Latest Letters

  • Don’t axe our City Guardians
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • PLANS by Westminster City Council to axe 66 City Guardians, in order to cut £2.15million from the council’s budget, will hit efforts to cut crime and...
  • Political shifts and disdain for social housing
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • IN reply to the letter from Councillor Mehfuz Ahmed regarding Westminster Council’s ambitions for social housing in the city (Programme seeks to provide...
  • Letters to the Editor - Highlighting the headline tax obscures big picture
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • AS per every election the Conservative Party leaflet has a graph with “band D” council tax comparing Westminster in this case with Labour Haringey and...
  • Forget the Tories, there is only one threat to Labour
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • WITH every poll, newspaper (including the Tribune) and political pundit acknowledging that Islington South and Finsbury is a Labour marginal seat vulnerable to...
  • Candidate challenged
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • DAY by day, and sometimes twice a day, there is delivered to my home what purport from their mastheads to be newspapers. They are printed in garish print of a...
  • Democracy in danger when gates are shut on canvassers
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • THE Green Party opposes gated housing developments because they isolate residents and weaken the community. At election time it also becomes evident how they can...
  • Get a grip of knife crime
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • WHAT a shocking week for knife crime! (Outpouring of grief for soccer Sam, April 16). Not only did we have the front-page article on the murder of Sam Fitzgerald...
  • Tube on right lines
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • IT’S great to read that Tube Lines is finally rethinking some of its crazy Northern line closure proposals. Every time there are Tube closures it hits...
  • Playground politics
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • I WOULD be interested to know why the Islington Labour Party thought it was appropriate to stand outside my children’s primary school on Monday afternoon,...
  • Role model for castle?
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • DAN Carrier’s article on Mervyn Peake shed light on the importance of the rugged island of Sark in the imaginative shaping of Peake’s Gormenghast...
  • Money back!
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I WRITE about parking tickets received by drivers parked on single yellow lines on Good Friday and bank holiday Monday in Camden. Our traffic orders, relating to...
  • Who goes online before they park a car?
    Publsihed: 22 April, 2010 • FURTHER to Pam Baily’s letter of April 15, an elderly friend who lives outside Camden parked on a single yellow line on Good Friday. She came out to find...
  • Postal vote
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • All parties have betrayed us, so – speaking for the whole of the Belsize Ward: “No local post office means  no vote.” GWYNNETH P PRICE CD*...
  • A bus terminus for Camden Town?
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • THE residents of Bayham Street are right to question why there are so many bus stops and buses along this street (Bus stop is ‘ruining our lives’,...
  • No peace on the Heath
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • GOING for a walk on Hampstead Heath is now like going for a walk in central London. The heath is a hive of activity with all manner of noisy vehicles which...