Latest Letters

  • ‘With love from the poisoned pen of Piers?’
    Ex-colleagues and Town Hall rivals attend launch of former Tory leader’s revealing book Published: 25 March, 2010 by RICHARD OSLEY NEVER has Piers Wauchope been cheered by so many Labour...
  • Cutting teachers will be an election gift for Labour
    Published: 25th March 2010 • IT is one thing for our civil servants, under the whip of savage funding cuts from central government, to pass on the economies to the taxpayers in Camden. It could...
  • Listen to real health experts
    Published: 25th March 2010 • SINCE the threat to the Whittington Hospital’s A&E department first emerged in November, each week has brought with it a new voice of protest. But surely...
  • Patients put off with ‘bumped’ appointments
    Published: 25th March 2010 • ONE might expect that receiving an outpatient appointment would mean the end of the wait to be seen. Alas not when, with sickening monotony, letters inevitably drop...
  • We can’t afford to make NHS more expensive
    Published: 25th March 2010 • WHILE our attention has been focused on the protecting Whittington Hospital’s A&E unit,  a further development threatens to undermine emergency...
  • Royal and homeless
    Published: 25th March 2010 • IT is very good of Prince William to be concerned about people without a home (homeless), God bless him. However, may I suggest he encourages his relatives to give...
  • Protect these homes
    Published: 25th March 2010 • CONCERNING the reports of the Cumberland Market tenants against Crown Estate’s proposed sell-off, I have been a tenant of the Crown Estate for more than 20...
  • Crown Estate’s sell-off won’t help community
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I WOULD like to add my support to the campaign being waged in Regent’s Park to stop the planned sell-off of the Crown Estate properties in Cumberland Market....
  • We need a school here now
    Published: 25th March 2010 • OUR association is at the heart of the south Camden area where parents have been campaigning for a local secondary school for as long as most people can remember....
  • Life is sucked out of small traders
    Published: 25th March 2010 The hike in business rates will squeeze small traders to breaking point as they struggle to make it through the downturn • KILBURN Bookshop, on the High Road, has been...
  • Informing a party’s election manifesto
    Published: 25th March 2010 • YOUR reviewer (March 4) rightly described The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone as “brilliant, profound and provocative”, (Review, Fairer...
  • High-speed rail link needs careful, sympathetic, approach
    Published: 25th March 2010 • WE organised a meeting for local people to learn about the plans for the High Speed 2 rail link. We welcome any move to encourage modern, sustainable, transport...
  • Beyond tenants’ law
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I MUST admit to being somewhat puzzled at Anna Moore’s letter (Decent Homes and the law, March 4) advising Camden tenants on tenancy law. I can tell tenants...
  • Tell us the pay level
    Published: 25th March 2010 • CONTINUING complaints that Camden Council is an officer- rather than elected politician- led council are never more apt than when it comes to the disclosure of pay...
  • Waste and health cuts
    Published: 25th March 2010 • IT is plain wrong to say that Liberal Democrats have championed NHS privatisation, as Councillor Adrian Oliver claims (Letters, March 4). The Lib Dems have long...