Latest Letters

  • • CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Osley for uncovering the fact that Camden Council pension fund holds around £300,000 in BSkyB shares (Camden’s stake in BSkyB, July 8). Echoing the words...
  • • PLANS for Queen’s Crescent Community Association to assume responsibility for the Malden Road pitches, as you reported (Kids face ‘pay to play’ on sports pitches, July 7)...
  • • FOLLOWING your Comment (It’s dangerous to make a mockery of consultation, July 7) we would like to bring to your attention a very similar set of proposals regarding the parade of shops...
  • WHAT price a primary school place in Camden? Parents in Hampstead and Belsize Park would give their eye teeth for one.  It is no wonder a movement to create a so-called free school has found...
  • • IN 1990, the Daily Mirror, then edited by Roy Greenslade, claimed that at the height of the miners’ strike (1984) National Union of Mineworkers’ president Arthur Scargill had taken...
  • • I WAS surprised that your front-page report (Blunders of kettle cops, July 7) made no mention of whether parents should have allowed their children to become involved in a confrontation with...
  • • I WOULD like to comment on the letters in the July 7 New Journal regarding Ash Court.   My mother was a resident at Ash Court, for more than six years, where she received excellent care...
  • LONDON’S Gay Pride march has an illustrious history as part of the fight for equality for the LGBT community but the event last weekend in Soho was far removed from that history.  It was a...
  • BROOK Street used to be a very pleasant street.  Now it bears a strong resemblance to 1945 Berlin.   Within the space of less than half a mile, there are five pieces of construction...
  • WHY do the proponents of the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park need such a gigantic monument? Never have I heard a complaint that, for example, the Cenotaph is too small.  The City of...
  • I READ with interest the letters by Alida Baxter and Mark Teverson (June 24 and July 1) setting out their concerns on Soho traffic issues.   The city council both at ward member level and...
  • I HAVE been the owner of the Toucan public house, Carlisle Street, for the last 18 years and have seen the huge increase in customers taking to the streets over the years. One of the main reasons for...
  • LAST week’s public meeting welcomed enthusiastically Councillor Paul Convery’s commitment that the council would ensure Highbury Roundhouse is rebuilt on its current site, but remained...
  • LEASEHOLDERS and tenants, are their interests the same? Surely leaseholders have purchased their property to make a big profit (albeit they caught a cold like their fellow capitalists, the bankers)....
  • BEFORE installation of gas laterals on Popham 1 estate, I researched the subject on the internet, and pointed out to Homes for Islington (HfI) that the gas laterals were too close to the electric...