Latest Letters

  • Start cuts on the streets
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • MANY pavements in  Swiss Cottage are a hazard to the disabled and those with failing eyesight. It is not just the multitude of posts, bollards, and portable...
  • Where are they now?
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • REGARDING the councillors we recently elected – have they completely gone to ground? Since then (almost eight weeks on) we’ve heard nothing from them...
  • Romantic banker
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • I WAS rather taken with the story (Love story: Romantic Oliver’s novel proposal in book- shop window, June 17). After spending many months reading about the...
  • Bread and circuses
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • WE hear a lot about the necessity of cuts to pay the nation’s debts. So I am wondering about the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games in 2012. The...
  • Arlington success
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • I WANT to add my congratulations to One Housing for the achievement of recreating Arlington House as a 21st- century centre for the homeless. You reported Keith...
  • Driverless trains
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • BRIAN Coleman is absolutely correct in asking Boris Johnson to make the trains on the Northern line driverless. This is the model that is being rolled out on the...
  • It’s time to reclaim the flag of St George from the right
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • I WAS stunned to discover that the Marks & Spencer on Camden High Street will not be supporting the England football team in this summer's festivities. My...
  • Sorry pass
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • IT is now mid-June, and I have yet to receive my Freedom Pass. I wrote to the Town Hall and received an apologetic reply and assurances my application would be...
  • A visionary
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • THE suddenness of Martin Davies death was as shocking as his death itself. It had only been two weeks since I sought his assistance and once again his response...
  • Martin’s passion to help the vulnerable
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • I WISH to also pay tribute to Councillor Martin Davies, whose sad death has come as a great shock to people throughout the borough. I am shocked and saddened by Martin...
  • Little time for parking?
    Published: 24 June, 2010 • CAMDEN Council sent letters to everyone on my road informing them of plans to “improve the footways”, which will require suspension of parking bays....
  • My thanks to angels
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • I WOULD like to give a big thank-you to our local NHS Trust and Islington social services. I was in University College Hospital on Boxing Day with a broken arm but I...
  • Spend this cash on social workers not pricey logos
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • THE contrast between Richard Rosser’s entertaining letter and the sad anonymous one following it (June 4) led me to consider a better possible use for NHS...
  • Lights on night and day but it’s ok... they’re eco-friendly
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • I HAD cause to ask the tenant liaison officer for Apollo, a subcontracting construction company working on behalf of Homes for Islington (HfI), why it was leaving the...
  • Oppose Boris Johnson’s policing cuts
    Published: 18 June, 2010 • ONE of my proudest moments as Mayor of London was helping to put a dedicated local Safer Neighbourhoods police team into every community in London. Today 630 local...