Latest Letters

  • Expensive and risky
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • AMID such dire economic times, should the council be entering into an expensive and risky deal to move their own offices to a sparkling new building?   If they...
  • Hold PCT to account
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • SO Camden’s primary care trust (PCT) has failed to take up their legal right to a lease with peppercorn rent at the very heart of the King’s Cross...
  • Essential
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • I WAS pleased to see your picture of the Friends of West Hampstead Library, (April 7), but no photograph can show the large number of people who visited to show...
  • Libraries ‘stand for civic decency and respect’
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • UNFORTUNATELY, I will be unable to attend the special full council meeting on April 27 that has been called to debate the future of our libraries in Camden.  I...
  • Let’s value grandparents
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • I AM one of the growing number of pensioners who are bringing up grandchildren.  I began this 20 years ago and it has affected my ability to earn and I am doing...
  • Places crisis
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • IN response to your article (62 pupils facing wait for a place at school, April 14), I would remind Cllr Heather Johnson that she only ever came to one of our working...
  • Alternative Vote just gives illusion of fairness
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • DON’T spoil your ballots, give a clear No to the Alternative Vote on May 5. The concept is fundamentally flawed, as a quick look at what happened in Hampstead...
  • Pools of sadness
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • IT’S a sad business that very rich people suddenly find that they must have their own private swimming pool and their own cinema carved out of the earth from...
  • Segregating the sexes
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • VICTORIAN values on segregating the sexes are alive and well at the Kentish Town Fitness Centre.  Men are barred from using the gym on Thursdays from 6pm, though...
  • Camping carry on!
    Published: 15 April, 2011 • DO those (Anti-cuts protesters set to occupy Trafalgar Square, April 8) taking the action consider they could be wrong in their activities?  Are we now to...
  • Smile, it’s only a road closure
    Published: 15 April, 2011 • FOR those of us who thought the closure of Poland Street was enough to cope with, a new requirement may be the last straw (Road closure a ‘crisis’ for...
  • FORUM: Europe’s new human tide of misery
    Published: 15 April, 2011 IT was a pitiful sight. The refugees sat in shocked silence on the pier, staring blankly ahead of them as relief workers milled about them handing out food and water. ...
  • Foul air that we breathe
    Published: 15 April, 2011 • BORIS Johnson and the government need to get to grips urgently with London’s dangerously polluted air. The European Commission recently held off from taking the...
  • Threat to lunch clubs
    Published: 15 April, 2011 • THE Mayville Centre in my ward does fantastic work with all sections of the community (Awards bill ‘would save our lunch club’, April 8). It is incredible...
  • Pipes ruin a fine estate
    Published: 15 April, 2011 AS chair of Popham 1 Tenants’ and Residents’ Association, I am proud to live on an estate where we consider ourselves to be not just neighbours but friends and a...