Latest Letters

  • Writing off GCSE results ignores pupils’ hard work
    • HOW dare Labour’s spokesman, Councillor Richard Watts, dismiss my grandson’s GCSE results with a wave of his hand (You must do even better with GCSEs, January 15). My grandson...
  • Build homes
    • THE cost of buying a home is tipped to rise far above incomes for another decade.  Building more low-cost homes could stem the loss of jobs and help Londoners secure a home they can...
  • Logistics and the Olympics
    • WHEN the Olympics and Paralympics come to London in 2012, Westminster will play a crucially important role. Virtually all visitors to London at that time will either stay in or visit...
  • Fares fair
    • READERS should not be swayed by Jennette Arnold’s claims on fares (Why is Mayor Boris punishing bus users? January 8).  It is fantasy finance to pretend you can improve London...
  • Value of voluntary groups
      • FOR many years we have generously supported the voluntary sector, enabling many organisations to provide a great range of services to Westminster’s residents (Voluntary groups hit...
  • Ten-month nightmare as buses reroute for Crossrail
    • RESIDENTS and businesses along Newman Street and Goodge Street are facing a 10-month nightmare, due to a massive increase in pollution (potentially affecting our health), damage to the...
  • Festive fare
    • GENEROUS donors to your Christmas hamper scheme would surely like to know how you select the needy and deserving recipients. Also, do they enjoy them? They may like to suggest their own...
  • No to death penalty
    • NATALIE Bennett of the Green Party either can’t read or she has deliberately fabricated the alleged comments I was suppose to have made in my article regarding the sad case of Akmal...
  • His final mission
    • JOHN Gulliver asks for information on Flying Officer Harold Gilleland, a St Pancras airman killed in action in 1942 (Mission to research war hero, January 7). I can’t help with his...
  • Online efforts hit
    • YET another cut from the Liberal Democrats and Tories running Camden will hit local people struggling to make their way through these tough times. This time the axe is falling in a swingeing...
  • St Luke’s a precious asset
    • I VISITED St Luke’s Hospital last week and found that the main part of the site is closed, despite protestations by the Camden and Islington (C&I) Foundation Trust that it is open....
  • Nazi jibe has no place in our politics
    • WE are fast approaching Holocaust Memorial Day, a day to remember all the victims of the Holocaust, genocides and hate crimes so I was saddened to learn of Liberal Democrat councillor Nick...
  • Remember who made youth cut in the first place
    • WARWICK Sharp, (Letters, January 14) is absolutely right to be concerned about the funding for the excellent Maiden Lane estate youth club. The stop-gap “solution” of...
  • Can't wait to get back into the swim
    • I READ Richard Osley’s report on the progress of Kentish Town Baths with excitement and anticipation and I couldn’t help thinking how fortunate anyone who is going to use the...
  • Use of gas-guzzling 4X4s is simply anti-social behaviour
    • LIVING in a small residential street in Camden, I frequently suffer from the nuisance of urban 4x4 usage. The fact my door opens directly onto the street means each day the first thing I see...