Latest Letters

  • Selective pain sharing
    Published: 29 October, 2010 • WE now have the Tory and Lib Dem definition of an affordable rent for council and housing associations. This is 80 per cent of market rents (private landlords). The...
  • Switch-off dangers
    Published: 29 October, 2010 • WHEN I read that Homes for Islington (HfI) had made the decision to move to an 18-hour heating arrangement on estates, two things sprung to mind: the impact this...
  • Time to cut interest bill
    Published: 29 October, 2010 • YESTERDAY, Northern Rock informed me I will be receiving the reduced sum of 0.08 per cent (net) on my £25 savings.  In this age of austerity and fairness...
  • Bargains at repair shop
    Published: 29 October, 2010 • JUST made an unexpected discovery in Seven Sisters Road, near Finsbury Park Tube station. If you find Bright Sparks repair and re-use shop you can drop off broken...
  • Gaza artist a siege victim
    Published: 29 October, 2010 • VISITORS to the summer art exhibition at Islington town hall were welcomed by the blue, black and white Resistance painting conveying hope under adversity. Sadly,...
  • Lost & found
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • HEARTFELT thanks to the kind Samaritan who returned my purse which I lost on a train on Saturday. It was handed in to a guard at West Hamp­stead Overground...
  • Flawed inquiry into child porn
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • I WOULD like to thank the New Journal and Jamie Welham for the report (Expert reveals ‘flaws’ in child porn inquiry, October 21). This so very, very...
  • Scams by fake landlords
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • A FOOTNOTE to your very effective warning to tenants on the risk of landlord frauds (October 21).  This saga began in June 2009 when I heard first-hand from a...
  • The blame game and our schools
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • IT’S a bit rich for   the Labour candidate   in Kentish Town to attack the coalition government for the lack of school improvement in Camden. In the...
  • Why firefighters do not want to take strike action
    Published: 28 October, 2010 An open letter to MPs Kate Hoey and Frank Dobson and my local councillors • I AM a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade, stationed in Camden and living in Stockwell...
  • How we can care for Tom
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • YOUR article and letter about the sad plight of Thomas Costello (‘Bring our Tom home’, October 21) raises serious matters.  Age Concern Camden has...
  • A measure reminiscent of a hated secret police
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • CAMDEN’S xenophobic Channel Programme (Report those ‘at-risk’ of violent extremism… October 21) is a disgraceful policy reminiscent of...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Devil of the spending cuts lurks concealed in the detail
    Published: 28 October, 2010 REAMS of articles have been published about the Comprehensive Spending Review. Hours of newscasts have been aired on TV about George Osborne’s statements in the...
  • Time for Parliament to abolish Crown Estate
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • THE Peabody Trust, a large London housing association, has now been named as the prospective buyer of the four London residential estates of affordable rented homes...
  • A merger for the second division?
    • CAMDEN’S secret discussions with Islington proceed apace regarding the proposed merger of the chief executive post and senior management team. Now Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea...