Latest Letters

  • Warm front
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IN the cold weather that we saw this winter, many people in Camden struggled to keep warm because their homes are so badly insulated.  People living in privately...
  • What a state!
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • FURTHER to the letter from Julie Tolchard (March 24), I too am a disgusted resident of Artisan Dwellings in Camden.   Little cleaning is apparent, so it gets...
  • United against cuts
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • WE have just seen a national Budget that can only raise grave concerns about our economic future and public services.  Here in Camden there’s a danger of...
  • Our problems of poverty
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • YOUR coverage of campaigns to save children’s centres has been counterpointed by some shocking new statistics published by the End Child Poverty campaign (We...
  • On the march with the TUC
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • THANKS to all members of the Labour Party, trade unions and community groups who united at Lincoln’s Inn Fields to protest at the destruction of the welfare...
  • Steel homes ‘saved’ detail
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IT was great to see a decent amount of column space given to the conservation victory over plans to develop 2C&2D Belsize Park Gardens (Steel homes saved from...
  • Vulnerable told ‘get your own hot food’
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IN 2008 Camden outsourced meals on wheels (more recently “community meals”) to part of the multinational ISS on a three-year contract, originally due to...
  • We won’t get fuelled again
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • THE winter fuel allowance is to be reduced by £50 for pensioners.  Those over 80 will lose £100. But this is not a reduction, insists a spokesperson...
  • Cutting carbon is not as easy as that
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • YOU reported in a recent issue how a project to insulate one person’s house was saving them around £1,000 a year in energy bills (‘Retro-fit’...
  • The I Believe eyesore
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • I WOULDN’T call the 40-odd votes in favour of keeping the pathetic “I Believe” eyesore on Lulworth tower a resounding endorsement.  They don...
  • A man of quality
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • THE squeeze was on the Charlie Ratchford Centre in Chalk Farm to find £20,000 in savings.  Its manager did not want to lose any front-line staff so...
  • Lunchtime lock-in
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • SCHOOLS are not prisons and Jo Armitage, headteacher of Acland Burghley School has no right to stop pupils going out at lunchtime (Head fights the takeaways with a...
  • The arguments against HS2
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • HS2 would cause huge damage in Camden and is not in the national interest either.   Opposition is only the first step. There is no chance that the current...
  • Disability? Forget the gym!
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • CAMDEN COUNCIL is secretly abolishing free gym access for disabled people as of April 1 on top of the other services they are cutting from this vulnerable group....
  • Big shop rent hikes will work against landlords
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IN response to John Gulliver’s article (Sharp shock for business, March 24), landlords are doing themselves no favours by raising rents by 50 per cent in...