Latest Letters

  • Holly Lodge’s proud history
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I WAS horrified to read of the council’s cut of £30,000 core grant to Holly Lodge Community Centre. I have lived on Holly Lodge since 1965 and know...
  • Why HSE takes time to investigate
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • JOHN Gulliver questions the competence and speed of the Health and Safety Executive investigators in the case against Foxtel Ltd and its role in the death of Noel...
  • Don’t punish the parents
    Published: August 25, 2011 I AM pleased that Camden’s current administration has decided not to seek to evict the families of those arrested in connection to the recent riots from their council...
  • EDITOR'S COMMENT: Foreign takeover malaise – a curious British disease
    Published: August 25, 2011 WHO will protect British companies from foreign takeovers? Certainly New Labour wouldn’t. Whenever foreign firms began to eye up possible prey in Britain, New Labour...
  • Naming and shaming…
    Published: August 25, 2011 I WOULD very much like to record my appreciation of John Gulliver’s timely and extremely worthwhile observations about the incredible shortcomings of the media in...
  • Maintaining policing
    Published: August 25, 2011 I COMPLETELY agree with the business leaders interviewed on your front page (Don’t chop ‘vital’ cops, August 18) – now, more than ever, we need...
  • Reckless on numbers
    Published: August 25, 2011 YOU report that businesses are imploring the government to rethink cuts to police numbers in the wake of the Camden riots.  It is not only businesses. While canvassing...
  • Defend a vital local lifeline
    Published: August 25, 2011 AS the by-election in Highgate ward approaches we urge all the candidates to ensure that Holly Lodge Community Centre does not close.  The centre, which just lost its...
  • New space
    Published: August 25, 2011 YOU report on residents who are concerned about the new space in front of King’s Cross station (Square is ‘wasted opportunity’, August 18). I have...
  • Policy on rubbish
    Published: August 25, 2011 I WOULD like to clarify some points about waste collection and recycling in Camden further to the letter (Rubbish piling up in the borough, August 11). At a time when many...
  • Yet another application
    Published: August 25, 2011 A LETTER arrived from the council telling me the property developers who run a restaurant on Swains Lane want to stick an extra floor on the building. Fair enough, I...
  • High hopes
    Published: August 25, 2011 I’D like to congratulate Camden’s A-level and GCSE students on their results. It’s a pleasure to see so many young people being rewarded for their hard...
  • Give us lifts everywhere
    Published: August 25, 2011 THE campaign for a lift at Hampstead Heath station alone is absurd (Royal Free chiefs back station lift call, August 18). So you need a lift to leave Hampstead Heath...
  • No one to look up to?
    Published: August 25, 2011 AS an elderly wheelchair-user I have found most young people polite, kind, helpful and yet sadly lacking in hope. For the young, there is, it seems, little hope for the...
  • My young friend knows we are not all ‘in this together’
    Published: August 25, 2011 FOUND a young man slumped on the town hall steps in Argyle Street, aged 21, and without the £20 needed for a bed promised in Finsbury Park. And I talked to him. From...