Latest Letters

  • CNJ COMMENT - Blast from the past could be the Coalition’s saviour
    Published: 31 March, 2011 THOUGH it has been little reported, a plan to revert to an old-style form of funding for local authorities could be the ace up the sleeve for the Coalition government. That...
  • Beware a bunker mentality of the older killjoys on Heath
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • THERE’S a lot of sophistry and false argument about supposedly dangerous cyclists on the Heath.  As a doctor dealing with emergencies at the Royal Free, I...
  • Board names
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IT has come to my attention that it is thought that I am a member of the board of directors of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation who are constructing...
  • More dirt!
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • I HAVE lived through the excess of building the  St Pancras International terminal.  Four years of dirt and dust ruining our blinds and curtains alike; road...
  • Alice in Wonderland lab could be terror target
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • WERE Lewis Carroll alive today, he would really believe that Alice in Wonderland ruled England. I have seen in the press that the Wellcome Trust have put in a bid of...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘as i please’
    Published: 31 March, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON That rush for the gush is happening all over again  THE plane rose sharply from the RAF base El Adem, then headed back north-west over the...
  • Have your say
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • IT’S time to show you care; your library needs you!  The first public meeting of the Friends of Queens Crescent Library Users Group takes place tonight, (...
  • Decision time for the future of libraries
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • CAMDEN Council will decide in May how to deal with the extensive and well-used library service with less money.  There are 13 libraries in Camden with some of...
  • Opinion – Town halls’ spending power can force firms to take on apprentices
    Switch from cheap labour to training our young people, says Kevin McLoughlin Published: 25th March, 2011 I WAS delighted to see that Wednesday’s Budget focused so strongly on the impor­...
  • At mercy of landlord?
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • “CAVEAT emptor”, or buyer beware, is the warning usually given to people who may be tempted by dodgy traders. It would now seem to apply to leaseholders...
  • Make vote compulsory
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • JUST a thought regarding the referendum on the alternative vote, which, incidentally, is not proportional representation: would not all voting in referendums be more...
  • Bully tactics won’t work
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • I WAS quiet surprised to see that a fair percentage of free school meals were heading into the bin (Call for a ban on takeaways near schools, March 11).  It...
  • Save Tube light show
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • I WOULD like to register my dismay that the tower of flashing lights atop Archway Tube station, “the Big Rock Candy Fountain”, is due to be dismantled and...
  • Monitoring the Roamer
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • NOW that the Residents’ Roamer has come into force, it has become clear that this is a parking policy that cannot fail. Residents may be expecting Islington...
  • No place for a family
    Published: 25 March, 2011 • AFTER three decades of radical change at Charles Rowan House in Clerkenwell, it is heartbreaking to end up quarrelling with a Labour council over the use of one...