Latest Letters

  • Room for much more than solar panels on our roofs
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • I WAS extremely pleased to read that Islington Council is supporting a large scale roll-out of solar panels across council-owned properties (Sun shines on more jobs and...
  • Hardest hit will benefit
    Published: 3 June, 2011 • IF you or someone in your family is disabled then I know you may have concerns about what welfare reform means for you (Hardest Hit by cruel cuts, May 20; We won’...
  • Listen to these voices
    • I FIND it extraordinary that consultation about the future of our homes is apparently to be restricted to residents on the Homes for Islington (HfI) Resident Involvement Register and the...
  • Cameron, King Kong and a catalogue of confusion
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 ILLTYD HARRINGTON: ‘AS I PLEASE’ I WAS assured by an old musical diva Bertha Willmott that Winston Churchill loved to share the vulgarity of the working classes...
  • NHS must do better… but don’t go private
      Days after the Care Quality Commission found the Royal Free had failed to meet standards of care for its elderly patients, Neil Fletcher says the inspectors don’t go into private...
  • Driven to distraction by mobile litter louts
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • IT seems the battle to keep our roadsides clear of litter is never ending.  This situation is not helped by the current legal loophole that lets litter louts get...
  • For us, walking the dog will never be the same
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • I JUST received a leaflet through my door telling me that the road in which we park our car twice a day in order to get Choci, our disabled dog, to the nearest park (...
  • Children at heart of Talacre sports centre use
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • THE astonishing disclosure that parents can’t deliver or pick up children under eight (or 14 in some cases) is hard to believe, even for those of us who have...
  • Save cash, homes and HS2
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 Open letter to the chairman of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee • I NOTE from the local press that you are considering submissions regarding...
  • Camden's Archives and Libraries – Volunteers not free labour
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • The consultation got one question wrong.  The Camden archive is not a lending library; it is one of the best resourced, and best staffed research facilities of...
  • Fine fiasco as forest of road signs lead to confusion
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 EDITOR'S COMMENT WHO is to blame for the muddle of street signs in Gospel Oak that nets Camden council £60,000 a month? Or, indeed, is anyone to blame? What is...
  • Game over!
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • I AM upset to see the closure of the Gamestation store on Camden High Street and would just like to say a big thank you to all the people who worked there over...
  • Assisted suicide – Way out!
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • ON the subject of assisted suicide being legalised, we should go to the European courts to have a bill put through.  Is anyone interested in setting up a group?...
  • Take care with tigers
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • REGARDING your excellent story (Tigers, spiders and cuddly crocs banned, May 26), the World Society for the Protection of Animals was shocked to hear this was being...
  • A thriving youth club
    Published: 2nd June, 2011 • AS a director of Queen’s Crescent Community Association I think you gave a wrong impression of Queen’s Crescent (Street shooting brings plea for youth...