Latest Letters

  • Where Glenda can catch Ed
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • REGARDING Glenda Jackson’s Forum article on the election of the new Labour Party leader (Miliband is best leader to defeat this government,  September 30...
  • Principle lost in child benefit cut
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • THE principle of universal child benefit is dead, despite the promises of the Conservative /Liberal Democrat government before it was elected.  The Government...
  • Welcome support for local artists
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • WHAT a stimulating article on Ewing Paddock’s work, to be shown at Burgh House (Review, September 30).  Rusty Ashman’s paintings will follow on...
  • Activists out of tune
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • DID you notice the result of the Labour Party leadership election? Not that Red Ed beat Dave, but the votes by Labour members in Camden? At special meetings in both...
  • Accidents waiting to happen
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • WHY is it residents’ safety concerns fell on deaf ears with both Liberal Democrat councillors within the Haverstock ward and that of the Gospel Oak District...
  • A fighter for those without a voice
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • THANK you for your coverage on the very sad death of Councillor Dave Horan (September 30).   Much has been said in these pages about Dave and his life, but it...
  • Making a positive memory out of a tragedy
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • WE would like to pay tribute to Camden Parks Department for the way they have supported us with the bench dedication for the family members killed in the Blitz in...
  • Even lawyers will feel the impact of cuts
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • IF anything illustrates the invidious position of policymakers in the face of massive government cuts, then the warning by solicitors firm Leigh Day & Co (...
  • Why we are exploring ways of sharing services
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • I DON’T think that Nick Russell (Opinion, Problem shared could mean a tough job is done by halves, September 30) has quite faced up to the scale of his...
  • Care in the community? We’ve heard that before
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • WHATEVER the coalition government’s intention, cuts to front- line services are shown to be happening.  If hospitals for the mentally ill are not front-...
  • New leader demonstrates party’s optimism
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • THE large Camden contingent at the Labour Party conference in Manchester has returned reinvigorated and united in our confidence in the new generation which now...
  • Don’t lose your money to conmen posing as landlords
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • FURTHER to your article in last week’s paper about fake iPhones in Camden, we would also like to alert your readers to fake landlord scams, as we have received...
  • The pain of privatisation?
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • FOR many years I have periodically received very helpful weekly NHS physiotherapy for chronic, progressive, mobility-reducing and sleep-disturbing back pain. ...
  • School not at all ‘ghastly’
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • I WAS concerned to read your front page article (Kids taught in ‘rotting classrooms’, September 30) as the picture painted of our school has been wildly...
  • Poverty trail exiles mentally ill hundreds of miles from home
    Published: 7 October, 2010 EDITOR'S COMMENT AN extraordinary aspect of the cases we reveal on page 3 is that mentally ill patients have to be moved out of London – even at 48 hours notice...