Latest Letters

  • Time to pick over bones of of messy recycling scheme
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • I WRITE in support of Robin Mackay Miller’s letter on the subject of recycling (September 2). I have always been a keen recycler and think that Camden...
  • How can it be so hard to put right such an obvious wrong?
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • PARENTS and others are right to be concerned about inappropriate advertising on a hoarding near a school (Parents’ fury at lap-dance hoarding on school...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Now our Town Hall is governing by press release
    Published: 9 September, 2010 IF you want to sum up New Labour, you could describe it as “Government through the media!” Whenever, Tony Blair or his key ministers wanted to introduce...
  • Not a GP’s role
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • I ENTIRELY agree with the commentary in the New Journal about both Camidoc and the Camden Bereavement Service (September 2). GPs are in no position to take on...
  • How to pay for healthcare
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • YOUR leader (Comment, September 2) on Camidoc’s demise raises some important considerations of our priorities. The cost of our ageing population is ...
  • Why this support for Camidoc?
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • IT beggars belief that the New Journal and its reporter Tom Foot are still touting support for Camidoc even after the company’s own recent admission of...
  • FORUM: The Miliband who was a true inspiration
    Published: 9 September, 2010 As brothers David and Ed Miliband go head to head in the Labour leadership contest,  Jeremy Corbyn recalls another Miliband, their father Ralph, and Sunday...
  • Bike bonus
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • A HUGE thank you to volunteers from Camden Cycling Campaign and elsewhere for their assistance to novices such as me in helping us to enjoy Boris’s Sky...
  • Don’t blame caretakers
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • FURTHER to the letter (Costs of caretaking, September 2) I wish the council would tell these tenants that the £8 per week for a caretakers service is...
  • Why Dr Jane took herself off the register
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • FURTHER to your article (Great Ormond Street boss now just plain Jane, August 26) – GOSH boss Dr Jane Collins takes herself off the prestigious medical...
  • Special area measures
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • IT’S good news that special conservation measures (known as Article Four Directions) are moving ahead in Swiss Cottage, Hampstead and Belsize (Planning...
  • Weak bridges a way to Hell
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • WITH regards to the overland track, Gospel Oak station, I have tried for many years to get the rail track owners to be aware of the dangers of neglecting the...
  • Time to praise London’s taxi drivers
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • I WOULD just like to put forward a few facts after the letter portraying a very negative attitude towards London black taxis (High prices of black cabs,...
  • Who needs a survey?
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • I NOTE that Camden Council’s standards committee is to decide on whether to pay the Audit Commission £9,000 to conduct an ethical survey of our...
  • Cheaper bags
    Published: 9 September, 2010 • FOR the benefit of your correspondent (Letters, September 2) I share the information that biodegradable food composting bags for residents’ “...