Latest Letters

  • FORUM: Sold on a stroll down the towpath
    Published: 30 June, 2011 by MARK NEWELL  No doubt, inspired by the consumption at Westfield shopping centres, Camden Market Holdings have conspired to kill the thing it loves. The core...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 30 June, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON WALES, that green emerald with a population that shouts rather than speaks, but in melody and, to anyone passing, in embracing tones; rugby, male choirs...
  • Shame about Israel gig, Bob
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • FANTASTIC that Bob Dylan played at the “great Finsbury Park Fleadh revival” but a shame that he then went on to play in Israel… over 200 Irish...
  • Pity Sir Christopher Wren, it’s no Manhattan
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • CAMDEN Council refused permission for the Dalby Street flats. Mayor Boris Johnson is responsible for the plan going ahead. Had developers hoped to get a slice of...
  • What’s after the nursery?
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • THE forthcoming closure by Camden of Cresswood Nursery in Queen’s Crescent, has left me dumbfounded. My youngest grandson has been attending this nursery for...
  • Safe and secure use of sports centre is priority
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • FOLLOWING the apprehension expressed on safety and the local campaign to stop the development work at Dalby Street, I write to let readers know that I remain very...
  • Parcel point
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • ROYAL Mail’s spokesman who said that moving the sorting office from Regis Road to Euston would be more cost effective went to the heart of the problem. It...
  • Mail needs sorting out
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • WE are a company in NW5 who will be greatly affected by the closure of the Regis Road sorting office (June 23). We collect our post for our building each morning (six...
  • No explanation for failure to organise ‘new’ refuse collections
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • IN May Camden distributed printed notices to all residents notifying them that as a cost-cutting exercise the two refuse collections per week (Monday and Thursday)...
  • Exciting ideas to transform our vision of a library’s use
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • ALAN Bennett’s teenage memories (Our libraries must be run by the Town Hall… June 23) and Paul Perkins’s vision of what some new thinking might lead...
  • Too soft on crime with cuts to policing?
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • ABDUL Hai’s comments (June 16) that the Tories are soft on crime are wide of the mark.  For years Gordon Brown threw money at problems without considering...
  • Free school frustration
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • ON June 23 two members of the Belsize Park Free Primary School group attended the Town Hall meeting, having been refused a deputation time in the council meeting to...
  • Lost!
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • THE repainted “Kentish Town” has lost its exclamation mark.  It was that which brought a smile to your face. Kentish Town has lost its exuberance...
  • Axe falls on tree policy
    Published: 24th June, 2011 • THE unnecessary felling of two of Richmond Avenue’s historic plane trees in Barnsbury, in breach of the council’s own tree policy 14, not only raises the...
  • For sale: a peerage
    Published: 24th June, 2011 • TONY Benn and our very own Jeremy Corbyn celebrated the 630th anniversary of the Peasants’ Revolt at Highbury Barn (Peasants’ Revolt was the first...