Latest Letters

  • Make cash go further
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • CAMDEN Labour wrings its hands and says it can’t do anything to stop the cuts. But other councils in cities facing the same or larger percentage reductions in...
  • Peter Pan budget
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • THE opposition parties’ alternative budgets were fairytale in their connection to the real world.  In the yellow corner we had the Peter Pan budget, a Never...
  • Outsiders determined to cause trouble
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • AT Monday’s full council meeting I was disgusted to see people charge at our councillors while they were talking to residents and listening to their concerns....
  • Protesters took a stand on fighting cuts
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • CONGRATULATIONS to all the protesters who made a stand against cuts in Camden on Monday. Shame that the Labour councillors didn’t do the same. They oppose the...
  • Centre changed my husband’s life
    Published: 3 March, 2011 • I AM really dismayed to learn that Hillwood resource centre is going to be closed down. I joined the centre when my husband had a stroke and his mobility became...
  • Sounds of West Central
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • FOR any citizen who lives in WC1 and WC2 and particularly those who live in and around the Brunswick Centre, the British Library has a very interesting CD on sale...
  • Lobby against the civic vandalism of library closure
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • WESTMINSTER City Council plans to close the St James’s Library in Victoria Street in September 2011 to save £357,000.  The library, which is used...
  • Time to pay back motorists
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • AS a member of the No To Mob who helped highlight the illegal mobile CCTV enforcement at the Brewer Street junction, I can say that we have not had one sighting of...
  • FORUM: Taxing question of banks’ billions
    Published: 25 February, 2011 by SARA AYECH At the weekend anti-cuts campaigners took their protest – and children – to the front line of Barclays’ high street branches...
  • Were you on sites?
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • I AM a professor at the University of Westminster working on a project attempting to record the histories of workers who helped to build some of the highest-...
  • Care before rebranding
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • WE are told there will be no “significant” cost to the rebranding exercise changing the Whittington Hospital to “Whittington Health” (...
  • Objections ignored
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • COUNCIL officials have produced a report on the results of the consultation on the hours of the residents’ roamer parking, only four days after the...
  • Protesters were seeking confrontation
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • MOST people realise the blame for public spending cuts lies entirely with the Tory-Lib Dem government. As there will be cuts, there will be people who do not agree...
  • A plaque to our angel
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • IT’S hustings time for the election of Islington People’s Plaques. As chair of Manor Gardens Welfare Trust I ask readers to consider voting for...
  • Fight these unfair cuts
      Published: 25 February, 2011 • LAST week, Islington Council passed a budget after the government removed £40million from the services that sustain our community. Those government...