Latest Letters

  • On the edge
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE Netherwood Day Centre for dementia sufferers in NW6 is under threat.  Unfortunately this superb, purpose-built centre is to be shut down and the far...
  • Real and growing need for NW6 children’s centre
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • CAMDEN Council’s decision to close Acol Children’s Centre in NW6 due to budget cuts has come as a huge blow to the many parents, children and staff...
  • Target hit-list has already been drawn up
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE deepest, most serious cuts so far that target the weak and vulnerable in the borough should make us all very concerned. A hit-list has already been drawn up and...
  • Onslaught
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • RICHARD OSLEY’S article (Labour urged to rethink council tax freeze by own party, January 6) and Meric Apak’s January 13 letter raise a crucial issue...
  • Old guard
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • MERIC APAK (January 13) is subtly challenging his own party’s seemingly adopted policy of preferring cuts, rather than council tax rises. And he is being...
  • Friends are a click away
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • AT the Fairness Commission meeting the other night a representative of disabled people stated that they were becoming isolated. Why not give them laptop computers...
  • Our streets will be filled by commuters
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • I HAVE no doubt that the new visitors’ permit policy, which allows drivers from outside the borough to apply for unlimited vouchers, will become an...
  • Shame to lose garage
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • AT a time when firms should be given more support and assistance to grow and survive, it’s so sad to see a long-standing part of the business community,...
  • An end to loo agony
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • ISLINGTON could solve the problem of providing public toilets by following the example of Richmond upon Thames, which runs a community toilet scheme.  In...
  • Calendars all round
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • AT Christmas, a lot of people receive too many calendars as presents. I suggest we send them to council departments which are obviously oblivious to dates. First,...
  • Real hero for people who struggle with stammering
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • I BELONG to an e-list of people who stammer and I would like to inform you that your article (Film a hit with charity that helps stammering children, January 7)...
  • Cycling is an easy remedy for parking-induced stress
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • I HAVE some sympathy for Juliet Stevenson and others who fear that Islington Council’s new parking proposals might mean a return to the “bad old days...
  • Magazine a cost-effective way of communicating
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • WE value the views of our local residents and work hard to listen to them and take on board their views (Advice from a banker, Letters January 7).  We’re...
  • Church of England must look into St Anne’s case
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • IN his short time here, David Gilmore reduced the congregation at St Anne’s to a small fraction of what it had been under his predecessors (Soho church naked...
  • Fares not fair, Boris
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • MAYOR Boris Johnson  has increased fares way above the rate of inflation – up by 12.7 per cent on buses and 3.9 per cent on the tube.  However, such...