Latest Letters

  • Booksellers can and will thrive here
    • OUR local used and independent bookshops are not financial basketcases as your article (Write Off? January 7) implied – there is a continuing demand for used books. The question is do...
  • Loss of bus stop blow to the elderly
    • THE bus stop opposite Camden Town Tube station, for buses towards Hampstead Heath, was removed several months ago.  This has a very negative impact on people travelling home from Camden...
  • Caretakers must not be replaced by anonymous contractors
    • A PRIVATE company will start cleaning Camden’s council estates this month. Caretakers are much more than just cleaners, they look out for elderly residents, they check if fittings are...
  • Maiden Lane fights on
    • SEVERAL months ago the council made the disastrous decision to cut funding to Maiden Lane Youth Club. Following huge public outcry across Camden they later introduced a stop-gap “...
  • Controlling Staffies
    • IF owners of rogue Staffordshire bull terriers that run amok attacking children on council housing estates, leaving them needing hospital treatment, were charged with child cruelty and banned...
  • Protect young from joblessness
    • I WAS quietly perusing the papers in Kentish Town last week when the newspaper was grabbed away from me. This happened twice despite me asking the culprit to desist. He was an elderly man...
  • Greater love hath...
    • THE “elephantine memory” John Gulliver claims for himself (The long knives are out as duo go backstabbing, January 7) is not up to the standard usually boasted on behalf of...
  • New station suggested
    • ANTHONY Parsons (January 7) suggests encouraging the use of Chalk Farm station instead of turning Camden Town station into a shopping centre.  Has anyone considered using the old Kentish...
  • Boris’s fare increases hit the poorest the hardest
    • IT hasn’t been a very happy new year for local people who rely on the bus and Tube to get about, as Tory Mayor Boris Johnson’s massive fare increases came into effect across London...
  • Never mind scaremongers – you’re safe on the canal
    • I WOULD take issue with the scaremongering of the people you interviewed in your article about the muggings on the canal (Canal towpath attacks warning, January 7). I have lived on a boat in...
  • Fighting for jobs
    • THE UK now has the highest rate of unemployment since 1995 with 2.5 million or 8 per cent of the workforce unemployed. Young people are particularly badly affected with one in five of the 16-...
  • How ‘special relationship’ affects a vulnerable citizen
    • I AGREE with Robert Ilson’s comparison of the treatment by the government with regard to Akmal Shaikh while on trial in China, and Gary McKinnon, wanted for extradition to America (...
  • ‘Icy streets of shame’ and lessons for saving A&E
    • IN the New Journal of February 6 2003 a leader was headed “Icy streets of shame”. It strongly criticised the council’s failure to grit pavements etc and noted that nearly 150...
  • All those CCTVs, but we can’t solve a hit-and-run case
    EDITOR'S COMMENT ARE the police right to close the case on the van driver who knocked down 95-year-old Ethel Hall? Though the accident occurred six months ago, the police have stopped their...
  • So cruel to cut hospital
    • I FIND it completely unbelievable to read about the plan to downgrade Whittington Hospital and take away its A and E department. Since moving back to London in 1986, I got to know the Whittington...