Latest Letters

  • Centre is vital
    Published: 3 February • A GREAT many of our elderly people have done a lot for this country and worked hard. For a great many of people at the Great Croft resource centre it is a vital part of...
  • Let them be
    Published: 3 February • I WAS appalled that there are moves to close Great Croft centre.  It’s such a caring home-from-home for so many, to meet, chat, discover new friends and old;...
  • Value to the community
    Published: 3 February • REGARDING the threat to Great Croft and Henderson Court centres, at the former I played for a birthday party one afternoon last autumn.  That occasion alone made it...
  • Want to borrow… or buy your books?
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • CAMDEN is preparing to consult people on possible ways of saving money within its library service. No amount of reassurance from councillors will convince us that...
  • Vulnerable people with dementia deserve a voice
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • I AM greatly upset over the planned closure of the Netherwood Day Centre in West Hampstead, which is being integrated with the Raglan House Day Centre to supposedly...
  • Executives are out of touch
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • I WAS disgusted when Councillor Pat Callaghan told the meeting at Henderson Court on January 14 that the highly-paid executives of the council had decided to...
  • Keeping high streets alive
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • IN reply to ML Sullivan (Why is no café allowed? Letters January 27) – a café is allowed at 225 Kentish Town Road but under the conditions...
  • We’re committed to providing a new play service as a partnership
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • UNDERSTANDABLY I am hearing concerns from residents about the impact on services from the large reduction in Camden’s funding from central government. ...
  • Not listening
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • WE see that the council are now pleading for wealthy bankers to fund council services, only days after they decided to spurn the advice of Lord Fink, leading hedge...
  • Give it up!
    Published: 3 February • PRESUMABLY before Camden Council goes with begging bowl to the bankers, its highly paid local councillors will set an example by donating at least 10 per cent of their...
  • Playing with big finances
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • IT may be that the council are hoping to make a vast amount of money from the sale of their annexe for a new hotel tower and use the money for good purposes (Good...
  • Council tax is so unpopular
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • UNUSUALLY, Camden’s Labour finance chief Theo Blackwell said something significant at the full council meeting.  No, it wasn’t his cheap gimmick...
  • Fitting site
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • AS architect for the proposed memorial in Mornington Crescent I write to clarify why the Millbrook Place location has been chosen in preference to alternative sites...
  • Give peace a chance and give due prominence and recognition to Cobden
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • I URGE everyone in Camden not to lose a historic opportunity.  Since 2004 I have, with others, been trying to get the statue of Richard Cobden in front of...
  • Lenny’s death a great loss to our epilepsy charity
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • WE would like to echo the tributes paid to Camden’s Lenny Rodgie (New Journal. January 27).  Lenny was a wonderful man and his death is a great loss to...