Latest Letters

  • Saved for Olympics
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • IT was with great delight that I saw that Islington will be able to play a part in the Olympic dream, with the Sobell Centre becoming the training ground for...
  • Subsiding café, paths full of holes... welcome to the Fields
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • MY children and I had a great time at Highbury Fields Fun Day. I would like to thank Islington Play Association and everyone else involved in creating such a...
  • Hospital again under threat as chiefs begin ‘stocktaking’
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Terry Stacy defends the absence of Islington Liberal Democrats at our recent protest outside the Department of Health by claiming that services at...
  • FORUM: Loss of Finsbury Health Centre would end an era
    Published: 27 August, 2010 ANOTHER day of decision nears in the long battle to save pioneering Finsbury Health Centre. Meg Howarth and Barb Jacobson warn that its closure would be an act of...
  • Costly cabs
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • BLACK cabs charge double the amount compared with minicabs. So why are they so expensive? The cost of keeping a taxi on the road cannot be so much higher than...
  • Hours of noise…
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • LIKE Peter Cave, (Cut down the noise, Letters August 13) I dislike noise, but his criticisms are unjustified. He needs to differentiate between necessary noise...
  • Congestion at hospital
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • IN relation to illegal parking by University College London Hospital ambulances it is a pity that emotion is obscuring the facts. The ambulances parked over a...
  • Freedom that was earned
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • I AGREE with the lady in your paper (Why losing my Freedom Pass will mean losing much more, August 13). Like me, she is a carer for an elderly person. I look...
  • Look who’s spending your cash on lavish entertaining
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • DO you remember that phrase “we’re all in this together” trotted out by the Conservatives to justify their massive and unnecessary cuts in...
  • Expectations of revamped swimming baths take dive
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • HEARD from a neighbour that the Marshall Street baths, now the Marshall Street Leisure Centre, were open again. It’s taken the Westminster City Council...
  • FORUM: There’s neither rhyme nor reason to the Olympic Route Network
    Published: 27 August, 2010 Murad Qureshi says there’s no need for ‘elite’ traffic lanes for the 2012 Games – a little common sense would solve the problem WITH the...
  • Sleep well?
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • ROGER Robinson asks about Liberal Democrats and their consciences (A betrayal by ‘democratic’ Liberals and Tories, August 19). Well let’s see...
  • Healthcare questions?
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • READERS may be interested in the news that Camden’s health scrutiny committee has invited NHS Camden to come to our next meeting at 6.30pm in the Council...
  • Primaries hit
    Published: August 26, 2010 • IT is not only Camden’s secondary schools which are suffering under Tory-Liberal Democrat government cuts to school building programmes (Education cuts to...
  • Give artists’ work a welcome home
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • IT’s good to hear that local artist Frank Auerbach’s Mornington Crescent painting might go for over a £1million (Mornington million, August 19...