Latest Letters

  • Trust must show compassion and interest
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • AT the time the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust was working on its £35,000 logo it was decided that C&I should stand for “care...
  • Noisy pests – blow them out
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • IT’S heartening many people are united in their discontent about the noise of vuvuzelas, yet leaf-blowers, which make a similar sound only far louder...
  • High prices of black cabs
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • BLACK cabs charge double the amount compared with minicabs. Sometimes older people may need to use them when coming back from shopping or a visit from the...
  • A stop too far
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • WHY has Transport for London moved the bus stop from opposite the very busy Stables Market? The pavement there is much wider than the new location further back...
  • Freedom that was earned
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • I AGREE with the lady in your paper (Why losing my Freedom Pass will mean losing much more, August 12). Like me, she is a carer for an elderly person. I look...
  • Chaos on collection days
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • IT is certainly quite clear from reading the New Journal’s letters page over the last few weeks that Camden Council’s new residential recycling and...
  • Tory attack on education budget is unnecessary
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • I HOPE every parent who voted Tory or Liberal Democrat at the general election in May now realises how stupid they were (Education cuts to leave £167m...
  • Where is the compassion for our homeless people?
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • WHO is running Camden’s homeless persons unit? What have they done to all the counter staff and client advisers?  What have they done to the people...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Who can woo the Lib-Dem ranks of disaffected?
    Published: 26 August, 2010 THOUGH talks between the Lib-Dems and Labour collapsed in the post-election days, the forces that inspired them won’t go away. They are bobbing up again in, of all...
  • Answers
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • MATTHEW Lewin’s letter (It stinks!, August 12) concerning the Estelle Road planning application, compelled me to write and address the implication that...
  • FORUM: Gangs don’t look at A-Zs!
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • ON the long-running saga of Gospel Oak being negatively stereotyped, it is high time that a rational perspective and objective view entered the debate rather...
  • Pass test
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • AT 85 I make mistakes, and want to thank the London Borough of Camden’s transport department, for their wonderfully quick and kindly help in arranging for me...
  • Open House opportunity
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • I AM writing to encourage Camden residents to take part in the Open House London weekend over September 18 and 19, where we get to see inside the many amazing...
  • Join debate on housing
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • WHY does Camden Council send threatening court action letters, costing £20 each, to elderly leaseholders to collect an erroneously outstanding £27 on...
  • Press for accessible bus stops
    Published: 26 August, 2010 • AS the transport watchdog for Camden, we have campaigned for bus stops in the area to be fully accessible: people in wheelchairs, with pushchairs and with mobility...