Latest Letters

  • Speed limit of 20mph would cut road deaths
    • FOLLOWING Westminster Conservatives’ refusal at the council meeting to back a call to introduce a 20mph speed limit on residential roads, Labour councillors have launched a “20 is...
  • Who is taking the recession strain?
    • WELL-OFF people can absorb the financial strain of a recession much more. There is a great deal of reconfiguring family homes with extra floors or basements in the area. My housing trust rent...
  • Fantasy fare
    • READERS should not be swayed by Murad Qureshi’s claims (Feeling the pinch with fare rises, January 15).  Mr Qureshi knows very well that even after this increase, average bus fares...
  • World Cup will blight our summer in Regent’s Park
    • THE intention by the Greater London Authority to hold a screening of 60 of the World Cup matches during the whole of the month of June, for some 20,000 people, and to sell alcohol freely, will...
  • Thanks to my rescuers
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I WANT to thank PC Paula Casey and PC Gary Doswell of the Heath constabulary for their concern and help on Saturday when I slipped on the ice on Hampstead Heath,...
  • Reuse shock
    Published: 4 February 2010 • IT’S a real shock to learn that the reuse shed  at the Camden Recycling Centre in Regis Road has been closed. It has been a wonderful resource for the...
  • Cash before community
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I WAS shocked to read of the death of Ethel Hall and then appalled that despite the presence of CCTV police had failed to apprehend the van driver  (Victim...
  • Removing railings would threaten children’s safety
    Published: 4 February 2010 • AS concerned local residents and parents of children at Gospel Oak school we strongly oppose plans to remove the guard railings on Savernake Road, Mansfield Road,...
  • No ‘race against time’ with issuing the freedom passes
    Published: 4 February 2010 • YOUR article (Big problem council can’t pass on, January 28) is not only misleading but is also likely to have caused unnecessary concern. The council is not...
  • Night to remember with Ian Christie
    Published: 4 February 2010 • A SADNESS came over me when I read of the death of Ian Christie (New Journal, January 21) but he and his brother, Keith, have left me with a wonderful memory of an...
  • Why is mayor’s case different?
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I WAS astonished to see that the chief executive of Camden Council, Moira Gibb, has taken it upon herself to ban the mayor of Camden from performing any mayoral...
  • Fear of hospital madness
    Publsihed: 4 February 2010 • HAS the Royal Free Hospital gone mad! First we have the greedy bankers and now the £70,000 laminated desks, and they are not even made of gold (January 28)....
  • Licensing vomit on streets
    Published: 4 February 2010 • IT is extremely galling to hear licensing chief Councillor Kirsty Roberts warn Camden Town residents that it was a personal “choice” to live among its...
  • Provide these schools with extra double-decker buses
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I WOULD like to make two practical suggestions aimed at easing the congestion on the buses along Highgate Road at the end of classes (about 3.15pm) at the three...
  • World Cup will blight our summer on Regent’s Park
    Published: 4 February 2010 • THE intention by the Greater London Authority to hold a screening of 60 of the World Cup matches during the whole of the month of June, for some 20,000 people, and...