Latest Letters

  • Marketing madness
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • THE egomania of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust is once again in the ascendant, according to its board papers for this month which show that it is...
  • Beware of machines
    Published: 28 May, 2010 • IT appears that the “green machine” cleaning vehicle continues its harassment of the public (Pavement pounding, May 21). At 9.25am on Monday, a young...
  • An estate loved more than it is loathed
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • I LIVE on the Alexandra Road estate, Kilburn, and was lucky enough to be part of the documentary One below the Queen – Rowley Way Speaks for Itself screened...
  • Rent crisis
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • WHAT’S the government going to do in the current financial climate about the unfair Fair Rent formula used for those of us who are elderly? My state pension...
  • A great headteacher
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • I WAS sad to read that David Wallis-Jones, long-time head of Fitzjohn’s Primary School has died. He saw my daughter and grand-daughters through his school...
  • Waste of air conditioning
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • WHY is it necessary for Camden Council to waste money and energy, by switching on air conditioning when the outside temperature has scarcely risen above 17 or 18...
  • Rude pupils spoil the Heath
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • THE three schools whose students litter the Parliament Hill Fields area of the Heath might help deter this by focusing on personalities rather than on ecology. A while...
  • Wall-to-wall books OK
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • IT was too good to last – a calm, restful, beautiful space much-loved by the local community. The Heath Library was a true jewel. How could this have been...
  • All dog-owners damned for sins of the minority
    • I READ with interest Hugo Barnacle’s letter accusing all dog-owners of anti-social behaviour (Stupid dog-owners make killing of swan inevitable, May 20). I find the idea of punishing all...
  • CNJ Comment - If it was good enough for David, Ed and Oona...
    Published: 27 May, 2010 ALTHOUGH certainly a flagship policy for the government just gone, the spread of academy schools shuffled by on tiptoes. Labour educationists became suspicious of schools...
  • Control
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • LIKE many Camden Council tenants and leaseholders we thought it was fantastic that the first action of the newly elected Labour council was to end the sale of...
  • Tenants win a victory against homes sell-offs
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • TENANTS in Camden have won an important victory in our campaign against council housing sell-offs.  I want to invite all tenants associations and reps to our...
  • Marketing madness?
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • THE egomania of the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust is once again in the ascendent according to its board papers for this month which show that it is...
  • Money to repair our crumbling primary schools is essential
    Published: 27 May, 2010 • YOUR article (Schools in £200m cash cut fears, May 20) only referred to Camden’s secondary schools. There is a much smaller sum of £20million...
  • Forum: Lib Dem Councillor Chris Naylor says "Where’s the money to fix homes?"
    Published: 27th May, 2010 The challenge for the new Labour administration in Camden is to show they really do care about 20,000 council tenants waking up in sub-standard homes every day, says Liberal...