Latest Letters

  • Parking signs of the times
    Published: 25 February 2010 • SHORTLY after 9pm on a Sunday about a month ago I stopped for a couple of minutes on Fortess Road adjacent to a pole displaying what I assumed were the loading...
  • Sign up against sale of our homes
    Published: 25 February 2010 Tenants’ leader Steve Smith says opposition is building to the Crown Estate’s plan to sell off their Cumberland Market estate homes and he outlines the...
  • Questions over sell-offs
    Published: 25 February 2010 • YOUR front-page story rightly drew attention to the private developer/landlord profits being made from the current council housing sell-offs. As a (Labour) council...
  • Confused on record?
    Published: 25 February 2010 • COUNCILLOR Jonathan Simpson’s assertion that he would not work with a political party that sold off council houses is quite extraordinary (Clegg’s...
  • Bad deal for taxpayers
    Published: 25 February 2010 • I WAS pleased to  see that the Tory parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn now agrees that the decision to sell off council houses made by those in...
  • Architects look down
    Published: 25 February 2010 • I NOTE with wry amusement your glowing interview (Standing up for ‘grand piano’, February 18) with the architect responsible for the Alfred Court/Sager...
  • Remember John’s fight for the Meeting House
    Published: 25 February 2010 • CAMDEN has lost a great man in John Rety. All poets who knew him, admired and respected him and his Sunday evenings at the Torriano Meeting House were not to be...
  • The right Gibson
    Published: 25 February 2010 • WELL done for at least showing the correct model of Gibson Guitar stolen from Mr Marr (Hand it over! The fan who stole Smiths star’s guitar says, ‘I...
  • There are no plans to build new council housing
    Published: 25 February 2010 • ON the Maiden Lane demolition Open Communities want us to believe the statistics they keep repeating. But to get the numbers they claim, they must have counted the...
  • Closures: Shed some light on the end of the tunnel
    Published: 25 February 2010 • TRAVELLERS are so used to London’s overcrowded transport system they may not be able to see what it is really like: It is a third-world system. Shamefully, it...
  • Maintain the quality and avoid a two-tier system of services
    Published: 25 February 2010 • WELL, so the Liberal Democrat-Tory coalition has been running Camden Council with some success for four years, we are told. The council had an excellent reputation...
  • Hospital communication
    Published: 25 February 2010 • OVER the past weeks there has been a multitude of stories locally about the future of healthcare in our borough. Whether it’s job cuts at the Royal Free,...
  • Four months and waiting
    Published: 25 February 2010 • READERS may recall the article by John Gulliver about problems being experienced by Camden in issuing the new style Freedom Pass (January 28). The response from...
  • Save A&E
    Published: 25 February 2010 • I HAD a rather embarrassing football injury last year following a fall from non-existent tackle in a works five-a-side. There followed two trips to Whittington A...
  • Time for us to stand up and be counted for NHS
    Published: 25 February 2010 • I LISTEN to my neighbours and local community often, as chair of our tenants’ association. I also listen to the views of the wider area, and pay attention to...