Latest Letters

  • Don’t make the north-south divide even worse
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • CAMDEN does not end at Euston Road.  Almost all events that are advertised – from weight programmes, sports events, groups etc – are always in the...
  • Education, and equality
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • THIS week, Camden’s cabinet makes a decision on cuts to Early Years Services. This may mean the closure of two children’s centres, Caversham and Acol, (...
  • Foxes don’t eat kids do they?
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • THERE are so many humane ways of deterring foxes from your garden if you so wish (Cruelty claim as resident arranges fox shootings, June 2). The fox’s natural...
  • Bloomsbury new élitism
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • I WAS not surprised to see that people are up in arms about AC Grayling’s plans for an élitist humanities university in Bloomsbury, although when his...
  • A scandal!
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • THE sale of St Luke’s Hospital by the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust is nothing less than a scandal.   This is a view shared by councillors from...
  • Construction by the Heath is a real blot on the landscape
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • CONSTRUCTION that has loomed up on a site in Millfield Lane is a disproportionate and grotesque contradiction of the rural charm of old Millfield Lane that runs hard by...
  • It’s not just about a hot meal
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • I WAS glad to see the article (Is Town Hall going cold on pensioners’ meals on wheels? June 2) regarding Camden’s decision to end any provision of meals on...
  • We must protect our history
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • IN this period of savage cuts in public expenditure it is vital to do everything possible to maintain the social fabric of everyday life.  Libraries are central to...
  • Radio seeks new hospital
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • THE end of an era… volunteer members past and present and friends met at Annie’s Bar in Kentish Town on Saturday to celebrate the years of good work London...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Care to rethink your plans for these private homes?
    Published: 9 June, 2011 HEALTH care and the profit motive do not mix. Witness the debacle over the hundreds of homes for the elderly run by the company Southern Cross which could go into...
  • Workshop
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • THANKS to people who donated tools to the Camden Town Shed following your news item in March. As we received more of some items than we needed, we have linked up with...
  • Old song?
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • IN 1930 Charlie Poole wrote a song called Old and Gray and Only in the Way and recorded it with his North Carolina Ramblers   So, a song written in the democratic...
  • Poverty trap
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • IT is a sobering thought that more than one in three children in Camden are growing up in poverty.  Too many are living without the basics that many of us take for...
  • Fine made me see red
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • I HAVE just paid Camden Council a £40 parking fine.  Not for the first time, I’m human and I make mistakes, and I certainly don’t expect special...
  • Let’s have new homes and a swimming pool
    Published: 9 June, 2011 • ABANDONING category 4 provision for “deadly” pathogen work on the Somers Town site (Commons select committee February 2011) excludes UK Centre for Medical...