Latest Letters

  • Canal now has lovely arch, but it’s in the wrong place
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • A DECORATIVE arch has appeared at the entrance to the Regent’s Canal at Danbury Street, Angel, following the rebuilding of the access ramp and steps to...
  • FORUM: Tea with the Miliband who was inspiration to socialists
    Published: 3 September, 2010 AS brothers David and Ed Miliband go head to head in the Labour leadership contest,  Jeremy Corbyn recalls another Miliband, their father Ralph, and Sunday...
  • Keep last ceili alive
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • READERS who enjoy traditional music will be interested to know that the Real Ceili is back at the Irish Centre in Murray Street, Camden Town, at 8pm on Sunday...
  • Plug this homes gap
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • GOOD to see councillors from both local parties firmly condemning our Prime Minister and his privileged friends’ attacks on council tenants (Contempt...
  • Thanks for a great gift
    Published: 3 September, 2010 • FOR more than two years I have campaigned vigorously to reflect the views of all Sobell Centre users and secure its future by overturning the previous Liberal...
  • Note a downward trend in reported crime
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • YOUR excited and verbose correspondent Nick Gordon of Highgate Road, NW5, is keen to support the doomsday scenario of Gospel Oak as the Dodge City of gang violence...
  • School with a small class size will be a real benefit
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • AS a new parent living in the local area I was pleased (and relieved) to hear that St Luke’s Church, Kidderpore Avenue, is proposing to open a “...
  • On our bikes
    Published: 2 September,, 2010 • I CAN’T believe that any government would actually stop the Freedom Pass completely. What would we do – hire one of Boris’s bikes at...
  • Ed’s old school tie
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • IT’S possible Ed Miliband read your editorial last week and decided he needed to speak to Camden people face-to-face. Or it’s possible that he...
  • Cut cost of recycling
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • HAVING recently visited the Ministry of Food exhibition at the Imperial War Museum I was inspired by the ingenious ideas people came up with during the Second...
  • Why black cabs can cost more
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • IN reply to the lady complaining of the price of black cabs (Letters, August 26) I have a son who is a black cab driver so asked him for some facts. First the...
  • High speeds are a danger
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • YOUR report (Probe after police van and car collide at traffic lights, August 26) on the collision at the intersection of Bayham and Plender streets indicates...
  • Desperate from dust, noise and an infestation of mice
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • DAVID FENNELLY is amazed at how he and other residents are being treated by the council because of a huge development being undertaken over the road from his...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Camidoc’s demise is a cautionary tale for the NHS
    Published: 2 September, 2010 THE financial problems besetting the out-of-hours doctors cooperative Camidoc should sound alarm bells over the coalition government’s NHS reform proposals....
  • Luftwaffe were doing their duty
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • I EXPERIENCED a number of near misses by bombing raids during the 1939-45 war. On July 24 1944 I was rescued from the wreckage of my home, the result of a...