Latest Letters

  • Festive hamper’s so pretty
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • I JUST wanted to say a great big thank you for all the hard work that went into giving us the Marks & Spencer hamper in the New Journal appeal. And what a...
  • No charity with parking!
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • I HAVE had three penalty charge notices (PCNs) wrongly issued against me in the past two months while dropping off donations to charity shops on the southern end...
  • Cuts to essential services will hit the vulnerable
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • THE Public & Commercial Services Union, Revenue & Customs Euston Branch oppose the cuts by the council to funding for community support services...
  • Look at the timing and the detail of Tube strike
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • ON Boxing Day the strike by Aslef, RMT and the TSSA deprived London’s struggling retail industry of some much-needed cash. It pushed shopping from the high...
  • Graffiti a work of art
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • I THINK that the graffiti on Lulworth block, off Agar Grove, is absolutely wonderful. I live nearby and can’t believe that so many bah-humbug-type people...
  • Few oppose the superlab
    Published: 30th December, 2010 • YOUR report (£660m superlab gets go-ahead, December 23) omits to mention several speeches in support of the application, including myself as ward...
  • Party was just a PR stunt
    Published: 29 December 2010 • WE all support the council cutting back on unnecessary spending when times are so tight (Cracker of a people’s party, December 24). But while...
  • Giving without tax breaks
    Published: 29 December 2010 WHEN I hear the Tory leader make his ever-so-pompous babblings about how “we” can give to charity in shops and banks, I get very angry. In Britain,...
  • Tribune was first with the news of Stonehenge eclipse
    Published: 29 December 2010 THANK you for your kind note on my visit to Stonehenge at dawn on December 21 (People, December 17). As was generally expected, neither the sun nor the moon was visible...
  • We’ve let the greedy bankers off the hook
    Published: 29 December 2010 TO bring a nation to the brink of bankruptcy, as the major banks have done, is not merely an act of selfish greed but of treason. The consequences of their  behaviour...
  • Route festooned with rubbish
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • YOU may wish to know something of the recent history of the “toilet” end of Camden in respect of the filth – and smells – commented on by...
  • Give our High Street back to the people
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • I GREATLY sympathise with the lady distressed at Camden High Street (Shamed by the state of our ‘premier’ shopping street, Letters, December 16)....
  • CNJ COMMENT: Thanks for the money – and your seal of approval
    Published: 23 December, 2010 DONATIONS to our Christmas Appeal this year have been more generous than ever before – the grant total is an astonishing £12,000.  That grand total is...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington - ‘As I Please’
    Published: 23 December, 2010 It’s time to kick against the pricks I NEVER completely understood where the expression “to makes somebody turn in their grave” came from. It would be a...
  • Endless march of these high-rise blocks
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • WHILE local planning meetings were suspended, apparently, the enormous development in City Road was pushed through. It is difficult not to wonder who is profiting...