Latest Letters

  • Loss of funding would be a body blow for this community group
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • THANK you for your article highlighting the plight of Holloway Neighbourhood Group, which faces having its funding axed totally by the Labour council (Neighbourhood...
  • Savage cut in legal aid
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • THE Tory-led government has cut more than £350million from the legal aid budget, which means taking away free legal advice for ordinary people on everyday...
  • Fresh threat to homes
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • RESIDENTS at Northview in Holloway are facing yet another attempt at architectural vandalism on our homes.  Our immediate problem, though, is getting hold of...
  • Give us back the land set aside for community hall
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • THE Old Royal Free Residents’ Association has had the land set aside for our community hall taken from us in an underhand way by our housing association, Family...
  • Simple way for cyclists to bypass Junction of Death
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • OLD Street roundabout is sometimes referred to as “The Junction of Death”, and not without good reason. The roundabout is an accident blackspot for those on...
  • Park folly
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • IN response to Tom Ball’s letter (Still time to stop this folly, June 24) it may be worth reminding people that the council’s decision to grant permission...
  • £1.5m for this?
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • COUNCIL leader Colin Barrow claims “We are cutting officialdom” (The dead hand of Whitehall June 17) so can he please tell Westminster council tax payers...
  • Soho’s pubs out on the pavements
    Published: 1 July, 2011 • I HAVE been a Soho resident for 32 years and I chair the Berwick Street Community Group. I am disabled and have trouble with mobility and I use a crutch. Walking to...
  • It’s Wharful
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • AS a visitor from Canada who adores London and appreciates its architecture I would like to respond to your excellent article (It’s Camden Lock in 2014,...
  • Screaming kids are bad for your ears
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • IS it stretching a point to include screaming kids in the protest (Stop that Terrible Row, Letters, June 23)? The readers may remember your report of my Just William...
  • What about the good news?
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • IT seems you are always looking for scandal or bad news to highlight yet when there is good news you ignore it.  After all the fuss you made about Camden’s...
  • Out of sympathy and scale
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • ON the current proposals to redevelop the Hawley Wharf site (It’s Camden Lock in 2014, June 23), the site is effectively a carcass with two vultures squabbling...
  • We’ll owe a debt to strikers
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • I WAS surprised to hear education secretary Michael Gove warning teachers not to strike this week as it would “undermine their reputation” when it’s...
  • Someone’s in trouble, but where can you find help?
    Published: 30 June, 2011 • HAS anyone in West Kentish Town tried to get some non-urgent help from the police lately? On Sunday morning I came across a very elderly man in a wheelchair of which a...
  • CNJ COMMENT - We still don’t know just how bumpy HS2 ride will be
    Published: 30 June, 2011 AT last, all parties on Camden Council seem united in their opposition to the high-speed rail project that will re-shape a large area in central Camden – ending in the...