Latest Letters

  • A one-size-fits-all approach cannot work when it comes to drug treatment, argues Kirstie Douse a solicitor for Release Published: August 4, 2011 FOLLOWING the death of Amy Winehouse  there has...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 AS a former user of the Food For All service myself, I found the location on York Way to have a semblance of privacy. It is a natural lay-by along the wall of King’s...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 IN response to your July 28 stories, I would point out that both the youth service and play services in Camden will still both be getting substantial resources. The reason...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 I WAS surprised discover that while the last police consultative committee was discussing the need for a softly-softly approach to policing, the Borough Commander had...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 OF the 31 properties proposed to be built (further to Workshop units could be sold off, July 7), only seven are for tenant rental and a further seven for affordable housing...
  • FIRST we would like to express our sincere thanks to the New Journal and its readers, for support and help through the difficult time since December 2010. The newspaper was instrumental in securing...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 ON Saturday afternoon, residents in Bartholomew Villas and Patshull Road, Kentish Town, were outraged to find that Argos had arranged for two fat brochures in Argos plastic...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 YOUR magnificent obit of our fabulous Camden singer, Amy, echoes the 19th-century essayist, Leigh Hunt: “Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.” And ever...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 FIONA Green’s description of how your Review cover photo of Lucian Freud (Waking up with Lucian’s boots beside my bed, July 28) came about doesn’t tally...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 I SEE Councillor Theo Blackwell has come round to the idea that it would be a good idea to sell some of the family silver in order to carry out much-needed improvements and...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 I’M having a bit of difficulty squaring this circle, any help appreciated. I have a fixed-term contract with the NHS and at the end of it I will either be offered a...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 TO the ordinary person, affordable rent means social rents, housing association rents, council housing rents, £420 (or so) per month for a two-bedroom, etcetera...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 SO Camden Council has got its way, three of its libraries are now in imminent danger of closure. Of course, local communities will struggle to thwart the administration...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 I AM writing to you regarding the July 14 article about what Brian Coleman said about the Electric Ballroom – that the ballroom should have been sacrificed in order to...
  • Published: August 4, 2011 IN their deliberations over which projects to fund, the council would do well to heed Winch Youth Centre chief Paul Perkins’s warning (Mountain now higher… Real...