Latest Letters

  • Stabbing: curb gangs
    Published: 8 July, 2011 FOLLOWING your front-page article about the tragic stabbing on the Andover estate (Another mum in mourning, July 1), we are clearly facing a very worrying situation in...
  • Clean up air at schools
    AT last the effects of transport emissions on health are firmly on the agenda for action (Call for action as report reveals how pollution affects schools close to busy roads, June 24). Not a moment...
  • No fat-cat salaries here
    AS Justine Gordon-Smith’s membership expired a year ago she will have missed much of the good work that has gone on recently in improving the leisure centres in Islington (Pools: what a shower...
  • Passenger fights back
    HERE at Newington Green we are all accustomed to the simultaneous arrival of two or more no 73 buses.  In mid-morning off-peak hours, one or both buses are near-empty. Being an off-peak time,...
  • Tenants who are left with nowhere to raise concerns
    WITH “arms’-length management organisations” like Homes for Islington (HfI), councils have become commissioning bodies separated from the day-to-day responsibility of looking after...
  • A dangerous precedent for future of historic buildings
    I AM dismayed to learn that Islington Council officers are going to recommend acceptance of a planning application to convert the post-room and administrative offices of the Beaux Arts Building in...
  • FORUM: We must axe this tax on dementia
    PAULA Ryan’s tragic story perfectly illustrates the urgent need to change our social care system. She was widowed 50 years ago and struggled to bring up her four children as a single parent,...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 7 July, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON I DISCOVERED a secret about my father last week – thanks to the legal requirement by MI5 to publish its files. In 1937, he had been ordered back...
  • Debate how to improve standards for tenants in the private rented sector
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • CAMDEN Council recently announced that there are now more private tenant households (estimated at 27 to 35 per cent) than council ones (26 per cent) in the borough....
  • Community football pitch falls victim to an unorthodox and shabby process
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • THE “free” to access community football pitch on Malden Road bites the dust, with the blessing of councillors and officers. The pitch, well-utilised by the...
  • Heating pressures
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • YOUR story (Councillor to raise funds for 91-year-old’s shower, June 30) surely typifies all that is lousy about this council? I am not infirm but face a similar...
  • Hard to understand authority’s decision on Veolia
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • THE French-British journalist Agnes Poirier has criticised the refuse collection of Camden by comparing it with the environmentally-friendly refuse collection in Paris...
  • Clear dissatisfaction with extreme forms of party politics
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • AT Camden’s full council meeting Councillor Nasim Ali set out Labour’s vision for the future, centred on three themes: leadership, democracy and community....
  • Volunteers and policing
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • SINCE 2004, the radical introduction of dedicated Safer Neighbourhoods community policing, combined with high levels of partnership between council and senior police,...
  • Your views on the wharf
    Published: 7 July, 2011 • FURTHER to the second public exhibition hosted by the Camden Market Estates Holdings (June 16-18), we are concerned that, as the developer is poised to submit their...