Latest Letters

  • No respect
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • THE lack of respect shown to Churchill’s statue and the Cenotaph during the students’ protests is tantamount to treason.  My uncle was 19 when he...
  • Anti-government protesters as social outcasts
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • STUDENTS have started a revolution.  Anti-British war protests are tolerated while anti-government protesters are treated like social lepers, even subjected...
  • Why we did not go ahead with sharing
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • I WANT to let your readers know why we have decided not to go ahead with sharing a chief executive and management team with our neighbouring borough Islington. Our...
  • It was always clear who needed to find the money
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • IT’S good to see from the New Journal letters (December 9) that Mick Farrant hasn’t lost his innate ability to pick up the wrong end of any stick he...
  • Tranquillity is history
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • ONCE the value of peace and tranquillity in the recovery process from mental illness was well recognised.   The Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust...
  • Hospitals hypocrisy
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • PENNY Abraham’s letter about the future of St Luke’s Hospital (December 9) shows that we don’t always lose a community champion when someone...
  • Much pain
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • THE extraordinary cuts proposed to Camden play services are, lest we forget, of around 80 per cent when the “pain” being handed down from central...
  • Giant axe
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • PEOPLE are greatly worried here in Camden, as across the country, about the giant axe that is falling upon public services. It’s all very well Eric Pickles...
  • Finding the ‘solution’
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • THE local Labour manifesto for May 2010 said: “When Labour ran Camden Council we prioritised young people through spending on education and activities beyond...
  • A beacon
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • Great Croft Resource Centre is a beacon service for older people, helps frail and socially isolated older people, also Bangladeshi older people, in King’s...
  • TINA again?
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • IN the 1940s after six years of total war, with a massive national debt, bombed cities and food rationing, we got the NHS, free education and social housing....
  • Podiatry clinics
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • THREE podiatry clinics were recently closed in Camden with an assurance by Camden Provider Services that the chiropody service would not be affected.  Camden...
  • Annexe plan is foolish
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • CAMDEN Council are planning to sell the Town Hall Annexe opposite St Pancras Station, and move their staff into a new building behind King’s Cross Station....
  • Waste paper
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • HAVING warned of potential drastic cuts to essential services to the elderly, children and possible library closures, what does our Loony Left council plan for us...
  • Spelt right
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • NEW graffiti has appeared on the large concrete water tank atop the roof of the 18-storey block of flats called Lulworth, off Agar Grove.   In huge letters is...