Latest Letters

  • Having a private road leading to our sports centre is just idiotic
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • AS a parent who for many years transported three children to and from the Talacre sports centre for various after-school clubs and parties I must say that doing so was...
  • Easy route to greater efficiencies in healthcare
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • THE NHS has never had such high patient satisfaction since its founding, has a record of achieving good value for money compared with other countries, and provides...
  • Baby Peter: MP’s claims unfounded
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • FURTHER to John Gulliver (Baby P fallout to claim another victim? June 16), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children’s Trust Board has written to Lynne...
  • Meals for 21st century
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • THE New Journal Comment of June 16 (Humanity is lost in the budget balance sheet) is nothing but ill-informed opinion that will undoubtedly cause unnecessary concern...
  • Cuts will leave us with a warehouse for the mentally ill
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • AT a meeting of the Camden & Islington Foundation (Mental Health) Trust governors, we learned that it is being required to find 9 per cent budget cuts....
  • Getting used to being scared?
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • THE youth gang problem is not new and youth violence indicates the failure of social control.  Police apathy can be demoralising. People feel that no one cares. I...
  • Praise for surgery
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • LAST Saturday I had two constituents come to my drop-in session and I was very heartened to hear the spontaneous praise they both gave the medical care they are...
  • Heartfelt thanks to a great community centre
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • I WOULD like to relate my experiences, since joining Castlehaven Community Association (CCA).  I went along in October 2009, with some trepidation, as I had never...
  • Laying the blame for the Wharf
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • AFTER visiting the Hawley Wharf exhibition yesterday and finding the scheme as horrific in scale and insensitive as ever I came away convinced that the people we...
  • Stop that terrible row
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • NOISE is the fastest growing pollution in the world today. What with barking dogs, loud music, scooters and high-powered motorcycles to list but a few. Then we have...
  • Wait for free school decision
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • I AM constantly surprised (and not in a good way) by the actions of Camden Council.  That there is a problem with a lack of primary school places is not in...
  • It’s been a pub not a club
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • IN response to the article regarding plans for the Parish Hall at St Aloysius (Priest booed as he bids to close a bar, June 16), I would like to point out that...
  • Heads are worth every penny that they are paid
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • CHRISTIAN Bishop blames highly paid headteachers and senior teachers for the redundancies affecting school staff in Camden (Cut the pay of senior teachers and heads,...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Lansley: Are you as good as your word on Whittington?
    Published: 23 June, 2011 THE firm impression given by the media – geared up by the PR machine at No 10 Downing Street – is that  the Prime Minister has listened to critics of...
  • FORUM: Borrowed time... How Victorian vision can help
    Published: 23 June, 2011 by PAUL PERKINS It’s quite possible a few eyebrows will have been raised with the news that, among the headlines of libraries “going it alone” and...