Latest Letters

  • Investigate the road fines
    Published: 18 February, 2011 • I WAS interested to read the article about Westminster’s traffic enforcement (front page,  February 11). A few months ago, a London taxi driver friend...
  • Friends back
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • FRIENDS of West Hampstead Library are out of hibernation, and meeting on Tuesday, February 22 at 7.30pm in order to re-form and put together a plan for action. All...
  • Freedoms?
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • ONE of the harshest cuts in the council’s savings programme is the plan to abolish the Disabled Person’s Freedom Pass scheme for people with severe...
  • Insulting
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • WE are profoundly concerned about the libraries consultation. The design of the questionnaire is insulting to respondents; its makes it quite clear its authors are...
  • Survey faults
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • PAUL Braithwaite uses his February 10 letter to “suggest” that “readers consider the closure of Swiss Cottage” [library]. Whatever his...
  • Keep them
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • IT’S a good thing that Camden is consulting on libraries before considering reducing services or closing them.  I think we should keep libraries open...
  • Difficult decisions
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • AS councillors we’re extremely concerned about the threatened closure of the Netherwood Day Centre in Kilburn ward (Massive blow for sufferers and carers as...
  • Very large public libraries will become white elephants
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • PAUL Braithwaite made a very good point in his February 10 letter – small libraries are the cornerstone of their communities.  Faced with the...
  • Happy family
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • HENDERSON Court is the best day centre.  Please, please, do not allow it to be closed. The staff are wonderful, the elderly participants are wonderful and we...
  • A health cri de coeur
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • WHAT a cri de coeur on mental illness and its impact on families in Tom Foot’s review of Henry’s Demons (Review, February 10). Yet sufferer Henry...
  • In wake of wall death tragedy, we need reform
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • SHORTLY after Saurav Ghai’s death, at a private meeting I was browbeaten by chief officers for daring to call for the sacking of housing officers.  ...
  • Vital service
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • I AM dismayed at the prospect of the Good Neighbour Scheme being cut, which is so important to older people.  The person I visit is 92 years old, has no...
  • A real lifeline
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • I VOLUNTEERED to take part in the Good Neighbour Scheme three years ago and each week I spend an hour visiting a woman who is now a 100 years old and has no close...
  • More than lunch clubs
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • YOUR Comment “Can going local save threatened centres for the elderly, February 10) says Camden Council, like Islington, might like to explore running...
  • Hospital beds crisis
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • CAMDEN and Islington Mental Health Trust is consulting on changing hospital services.  The first question is: Do you agree that across Camden and Islington we...