Latest Letters

  • Fighting poverty
    Published: 13 May, 2011 • WORLD Fair Trade Day is tomorrow (Saturday) May 14.  There are millions in the world experiencing hunger and hardship and we can provide opportunity not charity by...
  • Traffic marshals will not make sports centre roads safe
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • IN correspondence about the new access proposed for the Talacre sports centre should the development proceed (Accessible? May 5) the situation that exists during...
  • Why waste incinerators are a real disaster
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • WHAT happens to our domestic waste?  This week Camden publishes its plan, “for the next 25 to 35 years” according to the North London Waste Authority (...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 12 May, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON Let’s hold on to these bastions against the men of the night THE Age of Enlightenment did not cast its rays on our mayor Councillor Trevor Bell...
  • Record-breaking day?
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • WORLD Fair Trade Day is on Saturday.  There are millions in the world experiencing hunger and hardship and we can provide opportunity not charity by supporting...
  • Playground politics lead to a mess
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • CAMDEN Labour decided last week which 10 councillors should preside over Camden’s local government for the next 12 months by selecting its cabinet through a...
  • Stores can join the fun
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • I WOULD like to congratulate the Lymington Road Residents’ Association (LRRA) for doing an extremely good job in organising a street party on the day of the royal...
  • Promises, promises
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • THE local elections outside London have delivered an important message The Tory-led government, backed by their junior partners-in-crime, are forcing through right-wing...
  • Let’s have the Alternative Vote for elections here
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • THE national result of the Alternative Vote referendum may have been a clear No but locally the picture was different.   Camden, along with five other London...
  • Brilliant year, Jonathan
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • WELL, another council year comes to an end and Councillor Jonathan Simpson’s year in the office of mayor and Camden’s first citizen. Jonathan took on the...
  • How the cuts would have fallen
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • HAD Sally Gimson, been successful in the 2010 parliamentary elections as the Labour Party candidate for South Leicestershire, instead of trailing third, one does...
  • Others have got on with safeguarding libraries
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • THE Camden libraries debate on April 27 put two important items into clear focus, the strong support for Camden libraries by residents across the borough, and the lack...
  • Fruitless maintenance
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • CAMDEN is planning to perform tree maintenance on Rona Road’s apple trees on May 16, right in the middle of the growing season when the trees are in full fig....
  • Off with the heads of our flowers
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • THE grass-cutting firm which Camden Council uses employ workers who do not appear to think before cutting grass, shrubs or trees, and I wonder if they are trained...
  • Take two stations out of their mothballs
    Published: 12 May, 2011 • OF course reopening Kentish Town South tube station would make very good sense and it would certainly cost less than rebuilding Camden Town tube station (Is ‘...