Latest Letters

  • Wrong site
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • TRUST Camden Council to insult public opinion by recommending approval for a scruffy looking prisoner of war memorial on a traffic island in Camden High Street...
  • So when you are old, they take away your meals and exercise
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I AM glad to hear that Camden Council have decided not to buy tickets for the Olympics 2012 to give to young people – as other boroughs are doing –...
  • There is an alternative to cutting dementia care
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I AM shocked and dismayed the Labour administration is still intending to close down Camden’s purpose-built dementia centre, Netherwood in West Hampstead. With...
  • Politicians must consider the impact of any library closure
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I WAS glad to see Councillor Tulip Siddiq lending her support to the campaign to secure the future of Highgate Library when she attended the We Love Highgate Library...
  • Rough on homeless
    Published: 18 March 2011 • I FIND GR’s letter (Rough sleeping is unacceptable, March 11) unfeeling in the extreme. How would GR or the council answer the claim by Philip Hole of The Simon...
  • Soup and compassion
    Published: 18 March 2011 • ST Mungo’s is not supportive of the Westminster proposal to ban rough sleeping in Victoria (Cathedral rough sleepers and soup run wrangle heats up, March 11)....
  • Che’s travels
    Published: 18 March 2011 • THE revelation for Che Guevara and the late Alberto Granado (Review, Farewell to the real Poderoso, March 11) on their travels as young men, was that the illnesses...
  • No controls over a huge waste of public money
    Published: 18 March 2011 • Westminster City Council spends over £50million a year on back-office services, pays two senior officers more than the Prime Minister and employs another 25...
  • Don’t ignore the views of the people in plans for our market
    Published: 18 March 2011 • WESTMINSTER City Council’s plan to sell the leasehold of the commercial property it owns alongside Berwick Street Market (Market stalled? March 11) is...
  • These young people will not be evicted from hostel
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • I WOULD like to explain the reasons behind Islington Council’s decision not to grant planning permission for the young people’s hostel, known as Olympia...
  • Colluding with cuts
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • IT is a fact that opposition is, by its  very nature, divisive – otherwise it would be agreement. No amount of calls for solidarity can obscure the fact...
  • Roadworks double-take
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • A FEW weeks ago a zebra crossing in Copenhagen Street, at the junction with Bemerton Street, in Islington was dug up by workmen, and the island in the middle...
  • Child’s view of Green
    Published: 18th March, 2011   • I CERTAINLY remember Ernie’s stall on Clerkenwell Green (Green café memories, March 4). There was also a drinking fountain near his stall. As...
  • Behind the hoardings... a scene of utter devastation
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • THE former National Children’s Home site in Highbury Park is barricaded behind tall hoardings covered with stencils depicting wildlife and trees. What lies...
  • Tick the Irish box
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • WITH many thousands of people from Ireland living in Islington, the Federation of Irish Societies is running an awareness campaign to encourage first, second and...