Latest Letters

  • Reassurance on facelift
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • FURTHER to your article (Square pleads: Give back cash promised for facelift, May 12) we have not dropped plans to give Regent Square a facelift if £30,000 is...
  • No help!
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • What is happening to Camden Council?  At the end of March I rang the council’s mobility office to get an application form to get a taxi card to access...
  • Engaging with youth and why we need more community policing
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THE Borough Commander is right to prioritise gang crime, and – on a temporary basis – reinstate the South Hampstead/ Swiss Cottage dispersal zone in the...
  • Who cares about people with disabilities using the sports centre?
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • DOES Camden care about the disabled users of Talacre sports centre? It’s hard to imagine a project so anti-social as the Talacre development. Here is just one...
  • To sacrifice library archive would be vandalism
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THE consultation questionnaire about Camden’s libraries has been criticised for many reasons.  Your report (Friends groups are poised to rescue threatened...
  • Needs of the young
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • I, and many other young people I know, do not use our libraries as they don’t offer facilities that appeal to someone my age.  If they proposed plans to...
  • Role for deaf
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • I AM pleased that the new mayor, Abdul Quadir, has chosen the Royal National Institute for Deaf People as his charity.  The work they do is excellent. People who...
  • Stay safer on cycles
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • AS a cyclist with 60 years’ experience I was nearly killed some years ago at the exact spot in Camden Town Paula Jurek was killed. I did not follow my own advice...
  • School south of Euston Road
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • WHAT a great community we have south of the Euston Road.  The Holborn School campaign would like to thank the 591 parents with a total of 971 children aged nine or...
  • Holding for 2.5 hours
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THE council’s inefficient telephone system must have been named “Contact Camden” with a nod to irony. I called at the beginning of the week, and I...
  • Difficult decisions for Labour
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • I DISAGREE with your report (Labour at war, & Ditching of deputy leader sparks an F-word quarrel, May 12).  It’s not war – it was a democratic vote...
  • Sick to ticket ambulances
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THE ticketing of the M&L ambulance transporting the kidney dialysis patient shows that there is no common sense when it comes to issuing parking contravention...
  • Let us die in dignity – with a break for a fag on the way
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THE downside of medical science has now made longevity something of a curse in our society.  Long before living wills become relevant, there is the continual fear...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Small independents are the lifeblood of democracy
    Published: 19 May, 2011 IT doesn’t matter who has been in power over the decades, very little – if anything – has ever been done to help small businesses. This is something none of...
  • FORUM: Bill strikes at heart of social housing
    Published: 19 May, 2011 by EILEEN SHORT MPs have been debating the Localism Bill, which includes clauses undermining secure tenancies and puts the long-term future of council housing ...