Latest Letters

  • SEAN Birch describes the use of 4X4s as anti-social behaviour, (Letters, January 21) but one particular habit among all vehicle-users today is completely anti-social. So much so there is a new call...
  • OUR experience recently of supporting an elderly neighbour, Raymond Witch, during a period of illness when he was admitted to UCLH, discharged and then readmitted several times in quick succession...
  • A POPULAR saying at No 10 in the early Tony Blair years was: “Don’t let the genie out of the bottle.” In short:  “Don’t rock the boat.”  Or don’t...
  • Helen Marcus (pictured) says that government measures on ID cards and more will transform a once free country into an ‘Orwellian nightmare’ GOVERNMENT is destroying our freedoms. Those...
  • Dr Mark Hunt (Forum, January 21) hopes that he “will help put the record straight” on his company’s bid to run the proposed GP-led health centre (GPLHC) in Hampstead Road which has...
  • A LEAFLET distributed by the Lib Dems area, has my picture alongside some Lib Dems, presenting a petition at Downing Street against the closure of post offices and in particular the one at South End...
  • LOCAL residents can attend an upcoming meeting to discuss (and hopefully solve) the transport issues facing West Hampstead and Fortune Green. With weekend Underground and Overground closures, and the...
  • THE Prime Minister and Chancellor have promised to protect front line services in the NHS. They could start by saving the A&E department at the Whittington. RAY LONG Dartmouth Park Road NW5...
  • SAD to hear about the pedestrian involved in a fatal accident at the junction at the end of this street. But it’s not true, as Abdul Rahman claims, that “there are no pedestrian lights...
  • I WRITE in support of Frank Dobson MP (Stop Town Hall sale, January 21). I suspect Frank smells yet another travesty of public assets being wilfully sold within the corridors of Camden Town Hall?...
  • I WAS given this picture (above) by a friend. They had found it in a skip in Laurier Road, Dartmouth Park. A house was being renovated and the builders had thrown it out when they were clearing it...
  • I’VE read John Gulliver’s comments about Camden’s absurdly bureaucratic procedure for renewing freedom passes and I agree with every word. Camden’s peculiar system is running...
  • I WAS shocked to hear about the most recent child poverty figures and the report from Save the Children which says “child poverty has not only stalled but slid into reverse”. After 13...
  • AS chair of the board of directors which manages Queen’s Crescent Community Centre, I am pleased to be able to report that both of the people who were injured outside William Hill in the...
  • AS you reported (Now it’s all got personal, January 21), with reference to the British Museum’s planned extension, Paddy Pugh of English Heritage has accused the Camden Civic Society...