Latest Letters

  • Published: 10 June 2010 • READERS may be interested to know that the campaign for a London Living Wage is something the Greens have led the way on.  It was the Greens on the London Assembly...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • I WAS delighted to read that the new Labour group at Camden Council is pushing for a fairer basic wage for hundreds of cleaners, catering staff and security guards...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • RENZO Piano quite calmly tells us that the building he demolished in order to build his new St Giles Circus development was “monolithic”’ and a...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • I’VE just read your article on Albert Pierrepoint (Face of killer: Plaster casts of last hangman set to go up for sale, June 3) and noticed a couple of...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • IT is, of course, regrettable that a young water bird was inadvertently killed by a cyclist racing on a towpath (Towpath cyclist kills gosling, June 3).  No real...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • I REMEMBER going into the late Theo Georgiou’s shop in Tufnell Park Road this past winter to buy something small  and I found him wrapped in scarves, and...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • HAMPSTEAD readers of the New Journal may be distressed to learn that planning applications have been filed with Camden Council to turn the Duke of Hamilton in New End...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • THERE is to be a review of the child tax credit system. I have just received a final notice stating that my daughter’s portion will not be paid from August 30....
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 To Camden libraries chief Mike Clarke  FOR 25 years I have been a regular user of the Camden Library Service utilising several of the area libraries and raising my...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • I HAVE been looking for Renzo Piano “peering round a corner” of his new Central St Giles development, but so far to no avail (It’s a new Circus act!...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • YOU suggest (Comment, June 3) that if councillors bend their minds they could save millions by employing fewer consultants but that this would require intense analysis...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 LABOUR’S ex-finance chief, John Mills, was chided for building up the council’s piggy bank to around £80million in 2006. “We’ll need it for a...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • DENISE Bennett writes about ritual slaughter of bulls at all stadiums of World Cup Finals (Letters, June 3). Slaughter of cows is a source of global warming as it...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • CELEBRATING National Vegetarian Week, Clare Latimer offered recipes for meals without meat (Review, May 27).  Her warning that “calves have to be shot at...
  • Published: 10 June, 2010 • BRYAN Latter’s letter (Poppycock, June 3) covers many useful issues concerning the Church Commissioners’ selling of their social housing; maybe the central...