Latest Letters

  • It’s better to lose under a fair electoral system
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • ON May 5 the country votes in a referendum to scrap our current system for electing MPs, and replacing it with the Alternative Vote.  At the last election I was...
  • No to HS2
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • WELL done to the Labour councillors who voted against HS2 at Camden’s scrutiny meeting.  I urge the whole council to follow suit and oppose this...
  • Bunkum about trees
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • WHY do they make lovely spring trees look so ugly, asks Clare Shanks (April 14). For several years now I have been asking this question, too, together with associated...
  • Alarming
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • NEWS that another “stopping-up” order in Camden is causing concern (Church car park is ‘taken over’, April 21) is alarming.  Grove...
  • Talacre questions
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • WE write to address the concerns raised by residents living near Dalby Street, and the surrounding community, following your article (Dangerous sports centre road...
  • A year on and CAB still offers very good advice
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • CAMDEN CAB restructured its advice delivery service in 2010.  This was, the subject of concern to your readers with a number of letters suggesting the proposals...
  • Trust structure one way forward for libraries
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • WHEN facing the unthinkable, one must explore the unthought-of. At the news of the threat of closures of our libraries, Camden residents’ reaction has been...
  • Protecting football fans from babies. . .
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • SINCE 1975, the freedom to breastfeed in public has been law and this basic freedom is included in the Equality Act 2010 (Flash mob threat after breastfeeding mum was...
  • Is it costs or democracy they don’t like?
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • IS anyone surprised that it apparently costs £9,000 to hold a full council meeting in Camden Town Hall (£9k Big bill for meeting, April 21)?  Costs...
  • Hot day at hospital
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • LAST Wednesday, I spent almost four hours at the Whittington Hospital. Outside temperature was 25C, and the large windows at the front of the hospital were...
  • Mental health cuts
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • CAMDEN & Islington Foundation Trust has a large communications department so it is a mystery why users of the mental health services have to rely on the New...
  • Let’s all make cycling safe
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • IT was a sad tragedy when the cyclist was killed on the corner of St Pancras and Camden roads (When will they fix road where cyclist Paula dies? April 14).  I...
  • Grand offices are bad news
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • YOU report the extremely bad news that the Camden Labour group, by a narrow margin, has decided to build a new grand office on the King’s Cross lands (...
  • We’ve got to tame the worst excesses of cars
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • A NUMBER of stories in your April 21 edition were united by a single theme – the problems created by our undue deference to the motor car and failure to ensure...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Sale of GP surgeries is a death knell for our NHS
    Published: 28 April, 2011 THE sale of the three GP surgeries over the heads of the patients epitomises the impending break-up of the National Health Service. The company which sold them on regards...