Latest Letters

  • Care and kindness are alive and well
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • ONE evening recently, my friend phoned me and we arranged to meet at the Mediterranean Café and Bistro in Kentish Town Road just up from Camden Town tube...
  • The ‘psychology’ of bins and dropping rubbish revisited
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • A CITY bank worker has been filming people on a webcam he and his colleagues watch “on a huge screen at the office” (New Journal October 6). The people...
  • Academies no answer
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • YOUR correspondent  Paul D Rivers, is simply wrong (Dogma is blocking progress, October 6). He says the decision by Haverstock school not to opt for becoming...
  • Ensure landlords provide better homes
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Julian Fulbrook, Camden Council’s housing chief, wants to “lifeboat people out of the private rented sector, saving money on housing benefits...
  • Thanks for the help
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • I AM now on the mend, but I would like to thank the very kind young lady who helped me when I had my accident in Mansfield Road on Saturday evening at around 5.30...
  • Cameras would help
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • THE only way to keep cyclists safe on our roads is to put separated cycle lanes on all roads big enough (as on Royal College Street and St Pancras Way) and to make...
  • Cyclists’ safety sacrificed for an increase in speed
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • THANK you for the front page coverage (New Journal, October 6) of the issues relating to the tragic death of a young woman at the junction of Gray’s In Road,...
  • Bad idea
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • THANK you to Sir Torquil Norman for bringing the attention to your readers of the proposed Greenwood Place development. A member of my family who has learning...
  • Use bikes on side roads
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • IN an ideal world, lorries would be consigned to the night in our cities. London is so large, complex and sprawling that this could never be a reality. But, there...
  • A merger means loss
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • I WOULD strongly echo Sir Torquil Norman’s concerns about the proposed merger of four mental health centres (New Journal, October 6) and also to question how...
  • Truck danger
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • NO government is going to ban heavy vehicles from London. They are essential to the way we run London (though we could revive the scheme for preventing non-...
  • Pushing out the creative industries
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • WHY were local residents not informed or invited to the consultation for the Saatchi redevelopment building proposals? I have spoken to many residents in the area...
  • It’s only a game
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • EVERY footballer who played at the weekend from the topmost premiership team to those who use jumpers for goalposts put Carlos Tevez to shame because they just...
  • Ruination of Heath by sheepish compliance
    Published: 13 Ocotber, 2011 • IT seems beavers have got it all wrong. The southern bank of Pond No 1 on Hampstead Heath is, as I write, being totally stripped of many of its mature trees. The...
  • Saving a community centre from cuts
    Published: 13 October, 2011 • THE main item for discussion at the annual meeting of the Holly Lodge Community Centre this week is how to raise funding to keep the centre going. Eagle-eyed...