Latest Letters

  • Safety in our parks
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • NO one should feel they have to avoid their local park because they feel unsafe, which is why I have launched my Safer Parks Award. Safer parks are those well used...
  • One benefit to be axed
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • EDUCATIONAL Maintenance is certainly one “benefit” that deserves to be axed. Jobseekers’ Allowance is paid at the lowly rate of just over £65...
  • No care for monstrosity
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • IN the current climate of savage cuts to essential services, where we are asked to pull together and tighten our belts, it seems vulgar to construct this useless...
  • Why object to this tribute?
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • IF the Nazis had triumphed, the subject of the Bomber Command Memorial on the edge of Green Park would be academic as we would have surely already seen a monument (...
  • Advice centre reprieve was the ideal festive present
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • I NEVER saw Labour councillor Richard Greening as Father Christmas but your article shows that he really did get into the festive spirit in the run-up to the holiday...
  • Where can youths go?
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • MEASURES are being taken to move on groups of youths causing trouble in Finsbury Park (Dispersal zone crackdown on troublemakers, December 24). Apparently, it is the...
  • Great time in the snow
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • IT was great to see so many people out the Saturday before Christmas at Highbury Barn, singing carols and celebrating the festive season. There were children from...
  • Developers are quids in
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • SANDRA Hodgson gets to the heart of the shameless proposal to demolish Highbury Roundhouse – property (Real estate values rule again as Roundhouse faces...
  • My thanks to strangers who make kindness an everyday discovery
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • ONE compensation for becoming somewhat disabled has been the continued discovery of people’s kindness. Almost every day when I’m seen struggling along...
  • Nightmare on ice
    Published: 7 September, 2010 • FOR three days before Christmas I had to go to Finsbury Park to feed my sister’s cat. I am over 70, and it was an absolute nightmare.  She lives in...
  • At last, a use for f-word
    Published: 7 September, 2011 • HAVING been brought up in the 1930s by poverty-stricken but “aspiring” working class parents I shared their contempt for the riff-raff who peppered...
  • Watchdogs go missing
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • CAMDEN and Islington NHS Foundation Trust is about to relaunch a consultation on its proposals to cut more than 100 in-patient beds by having a bonfire of its...
  • Nice party, but it’s a shame about closure of day centre
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • IT was interesting to read about the pensioners’ party at the Town Hall (Cracker of a people’s party, December 24). What a nice gesture from the council...
  • Never had it so good!
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • HOW can there be a recession when there are so many vehicles on the road? What’s more, most of them have only one person in them. If there was, indeed, a...
  • Advice from a banker
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • MANY readers will have been angry to read that Westminster City Council is taking advice from a banker who is advising the council “to cut everything as I...