Latest Letters

  • With nowhere to park, will we still be welcome at Talacre sports centre?
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • IF the planned Talacre development is built there is nowhere nearby for someone to drop off or collect children if they’re travelling by car.   One of the...
  • Ampthill Square fire is under investigation
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • HAVING read the report of the fire in Gillfoot, Ampthill Square, I am concerned about the your heading (Residents in block with ‘disconnected fire alarms...
  • Splits over Camden's housing policy
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • WE all understand why Councillor Chris Naylor does not want to speak to the New Journal about the Lib Dems’ policies on housing.  The simple fact is that...
  • The tragic effects of cuts in our mental health services
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • THE sad death of Peter Wood (New Journal, May 12) is another indicator that cuts in the mental-health services will produce more tragedies and disasters since they...
  • Giggs exposed, but media have taken eye off ball
    Published: 26th May, 2011 EDITOR'S COMMENT THE powerful and the rich have the same need and right for justice as the poor and the weak. Justice is indivisible. The right to privacy is many sided but...
  • Water conservation
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • TWO months without rain, and people are wasting water on cars and gardens.  Fact is that we cannot manufacture the stuff.  What we have must be conserved....
  • At risk – people with mental illness
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • SANE is profoundly concerned at the closure of two psychiatric units in Camden and Islington and the serious reduction in available beds this will cause, making it...
  • Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC and Leigh Day
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • JOHN Gulliver (May 19) kindly credits me with welcome but unwarranted youthfulness when when he says the firm Leigh Day “drew in Geoffrey Bindman before he set...
  • Holding on for someone at Camden Council
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • I CAN only echo the sentiments of the writer who was kept on hold while trying to get through to a particular council department.  I tried getting through to the...
  • No clear way forward on tenancies
    Published: 26th May, 2011 • WE are pleased to hear Labour’s cabinet member for housing state his commitment not to use the new fixed-term tenancies (‘We’ll snub fixed-term...
  • Park patrols could bike it
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • LIKE Keith McDowall, I too have wondered why two people are employed by Islington Council to sit pointlessly in a camera car parked in Market Road (Two people sit in...
  • Uphill trek to polls
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • FOLLOWING the polling station debacle at last year’s general election, Islington Council revised the arrangements for Highbury West ward, to prevent it happening...
  • Hardest Hit by cruel cuts
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • THANK you for highlighting the Hardest Hit demonstration (‘It’s wrong to label us as work-shy’, May 13).  This was a very important protest for...
  • Pupils relish free meals
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • THE Lib Dems are again doing their party trick of trying to pretend that free school meals equal the £52million in savings this Conservative-Lib Dem...
  • Who should control our homes? Let’s have a vote
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • ISLINGTON Council is conducting a review of housing services currently delegated to Homes for Islington (HfI).  One of the first stages of the review – in my...