Latest Letters

  • No trains, no buses
    • ACCORDING to Transport for London, Caledonian Road is too difficult to get to for a London Overground bus replacement service. Yet the 153 bus route uses Offord Road and Copenhagen Street. To...
  • We’re not facing a Royal Free cash crisis
    Published: 11 February 2010 • WITH reference to your story (Hundreds face axe at Royal Free, February 4), I would like to correct some of the many errors of fact. First, as the statement...
  • The Apollo story continued: mission intolerable
    Published: 11 February 2010 A diary of despair from a reader whose council home is being brought up ‘to minimum housing living standards’ • IN the summer of 2009 we were sent a...
  • How to explain the parking wardens’ fun and games?
    Published: 11 February 2010 • MY partner has just received a parking fine for supposedly illegal parking in Patshull Road, Kentish Town, despite having visitor’s permits which  ...
  • Let’s deal with the fights, the vomit and the drugs
    Published: 11 February 2010 • I CAN understand why residents of Primrose Hill are concerned about the prospects of thousands of revellers descending onto the high street because of the World Cup...
  • Bonuses key to Tube work
    Published: 11 February 2010 • AT the same time as the pioneering Metropolitan Underground Railway was being built in the 1860s, someone was  linking America’s east and west coasts by...
  • Put politics aside and unite against Tube closures
    Published: 11 February 2010 EDITOR'S COMMENT SHOCKING news entwined with a sense of hope runs through the latest disclosure from Tube Lines, a company responsible for the refurbishment of the...
  • Dog dirt on our streets
    Published: 11 February 2010 • SURELY it is time for a campaign here in Camden against dog poo – so many parts of the borough are plagued by it.  At a time when we are trying to...
  • Showpiece for the rich
    Published: 11 February 2010 • It is bad enough that the beautiful property known as Beechwood, has gone to one of the excessively rich, but that an underground level could even be considered in...
  • Hellish hordes
    Published: 11 February 2010 • ALL of us surely agree about the state of Parliament Hill Fields  early in the day and again in the afternoon when the three schools spill out (Letters,...
  • What waste
    Published: 11 February 2010 • I’VE no doubt that Regent’s Place is keen to rent the empty offices on the corner of Euston Road and Osnaburgh Street.  But do they really...
  • Why secret payments?
    Published: 11 February 2010 • IN response to your article (The £1m secret payments made to council staff, February 4) I was shocked to hear about the lack of transparency when it comes to...
  • Threats to TB service
    Published: 11 February 2010 • WITH rates of TB infection already at alarming levels nationwide and half of all new UK infections in the capital (London has more cases than any other capital city...
  • Cuts risk road deaths
    Published: 11 February 2010 • I ENTIRELY agree with Alastair Campbell (not something I say often) on his backing for the early day motion calling for HGVs to be kept out of inner cities, fitted...
  • Freedom pass reality
    Published: 11 February 2010 • IN response to Councillor Martin Davies’s letter (February 4) on freedom passes issued by Camden, I applied for my pass on January 11, having turned 60 in...