Latest Letters

  • Homes were not left to rot
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • WE write in response to your article (MPs fury at empty homes left to rot, October 8) and to set the record straight over our housing policies. Contrary to...
  • Dealing with benefits locally would save millions of pounds
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • YOUR readers will undoubtedly be aware of the media coverage surrounding the future of the benefits system. It’s absolutely right that the system is...
  • Take a seat
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • ST Anne’s Church also had a tenant, WASSR (Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Residents), a charity to help senior citizens. If you went to see...
  • Distress at unholy threat to evict conservationists
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • AS a local resident and also vice-chair of the Soho Community Centre Trust (SCCT), I am writing to express the utter dismay I felt at your article (...
  • End homes nightmare
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • AS I opened my latest bill outlining the £1,800-odd in management fees and service charges that we are being asked to pay for the privilege of living in...
  • Protect our day centres
    Published: 15 October, 2010 I JOINED the crowd of about 80 people outside the Town Hall last Friday to protest against the cuts. Many people consider the coalition’s plans to be unreasonably...
  • Freedom Pass fight
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • MORE power to Councillor Catherine West’s elbow but if the government wants to withdraw our Freedom Passes we will fight them on the beaches, we will...
  • Recycling example
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • I READ with concern your article, Another fines mess, claims businessman (October 8). While I cannot comment on the other businesses involved, I do know that...
  • Obsession with cars
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • I SEE that the car-hating lobby are at it again (20mph lobby targets our busiest road, September 24). As was predicted, once 20mph zones were introduced for...
  • This gem is lost forever
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • I MUST express deep disappointment at the decision to approve the development of NCH Highbury Park, in spite of the failure to meet planning commitments. A five...
  • Waiting for my bill...
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • EVERY other week in your columns a kicking is dished out to Partners for Improvement in Islington, the hapless agent for 6,000 of Islington’s street...
  • Club that’s a home of boxing champions deserves backing
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • IT is outrageous that a private company can have the audacity to think it can override all the hard work and effort that Ron Hagland, Lenny Hagland and the...
  • Unfair to dismiss tenants’ involvement as ‘unelected focus groups’
    Published: 15 October, 2010 • I AM sorry that Richard Rosser thinks that Homes for Islington is “distancing ourselves from any meaningful dialogue with residents” (Letters,...
  • Nails are perilous for our dogs
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • I HAVE to write to warn dog lovers. I have a 14-year-old shih-tzu dog who still thinks she is a puppy, she has had one eye removed and no central vision in...
  • Head should join protest
    Published: 14th October, 2010 • THE Conservative Party’s decision to cancel building projects in schools across the country is a disgrace and Camden schools have suffered. As a recently...