Latest Letters

  • Legacy for community
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • HOW can I thank my neighbour Jennyfer Spencer from across the road? She died alone, but she left a legacy in our community and in her last letter to the New...
  • Lessons to be learned
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • I WAS very concerned to read your report of the sad case of Jennyfer Spencer, and I would thank the Camden New Journal for raising it, through articles like this...
  • There will be more
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • THE death of Jennyfer Spencer (Alex: the unanswered questions, April 8) highlights how vulnerable disabled people are in the community. Jennyfer appeared to...
  • Credit where it’s not due
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • AS residents of Goldhurst Terrace and Aberdare Gardens, we were surprised and saddened last week to discover that our current councillors, Andrew Marshall, Don...
  • Tower of light to lift spirits
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • ANDREW Fagg would be one of very few people who finds the British Telecom Tower’s advertising banner irritating (BT Tower advertising blights the night sky...
  • Young girl let down by cabbies
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • I AM very angry. My granddaughter went to a party on Thursday evening April 1 and was coming home via King’s Cross at 2.30am. She hailed a black cab –...
  • Bank holiday yellow peril
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • I HAVE just received a penalty for parking for five minutes on a single yellow line on Good Friday. How am I to know that Camden have apparently changed the...
  • Letters to the Editor - It’s time to stop bonuses for these highly-paid managers
    Published: 15, April, 2010 • WHILE welcoming the local Labour Party’s call for greater transparency about the pay of senior managers (Labour salaries request rejected by Town Hall,...
  • Letters to the Editor - Why we need an inquiry
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • HAVING read the statement from Camden Council’s director of housing, Jim Wintour (New Journal, April 8) I am even more convinced of the need for an independent...
  • Letters to the Editor - How come so many ignored plight of confused old man?
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • ON our way to the Hampstead fair on Easter Monday, myself and a friend were waiting to cross just outside the Gate pub in South End Green, Hampstead, when we...
  • Camden New Journal Comment - High-speed route to maximum community disruption
    Published: 15, April 2010 • THE chronic problem of top-down government and Whitehall secrecy that has ridden roughshod over our democracy for decades, is exemplified by the Lord Adonis High...
  • Breathtaking
    Published: 15, April 2010 • I FOUND Glenda Jackson’s Forum (April 8) simply breathtaking. It contained three facts which are indisputable – that housing is a big issue in MPs...
  • Lost funds
    Published: 15 April, 2010 • POOR Glenda Jackson: she was at pains in her opinion piece (Forum, April 8) to show how Labour is different from the Conservatives. Unfortunately, she merely shows us...
  • Sick of this inactivity on social housing
    Published: 15, April 2010 • I READ Glenda Jackson’s Forum article (Political parties are not the same when it comes to social housing, April 8), and found myself utterly incensed....
  • Trouble with politics of pensions
    Published: 15 April, 2010 What explains the low level of state pension in the United Kingdom compared with the rest of Europe and what can be done about it? Pensions activist Hugh Lowe (above)...