Latest Letters

Well done the Northern line drivers

Published: 16 September, 2010 • AS a fan of driverless trains I am probably not the most popular politician with the Northern line drivers; however, I like to be even-handed and salute them for...
Curse of the multinationals

Published: 16 September, 2010 • TWO Tescos in West Hampstead and now a Sainsbury’s. While some people may jump with joy, I am in despair. When will people wake up and realise?...
Managerial mess hits many estates

Published: 16 September, 2010 • SO proposals are afoot for consideration of sharing a chief executive of Islington with Camden (Is this the first ‘super borough’? September 9). Don...
People deserve better than this neglect by Network Rail

Published: 16 September, 2010 • I’M glad to see that your correspondent Bruce Robertson (Weak bridges a way to Hell, September 9) has drawn attention to the deplorable...
Our scientists have an exemplary safety record

Published: 16 September, 2010 • THE world-leading medical research centre planned for St Pancras and Somers Town will tackle diseases that affect us all. It is an unprecedented opportunity...
I probably owe my life to the out-of-hours doctors

Published: 16 September, 2010 • “NO one I know trusts Camidoc,” Stephen Hargreave sweepingly asserts (Why this support for Camidoc? Letters September 9). Well, I can’t speak...
A house the community fought to save almost slips away

Published: 16 September, 2010 EDITOR'S COMMENT THANK goodness One Housing Group housing association had the common sense, at the eleventh hour, to withdraw a house they had planned to put under the...
Vote coast

Published: 16 September, 2010 • NINE months ago, the Marine and Coastal Access Act passed into law, so confirming the widely held view that the coast is a national treasure that we should all be...
Legal cuts

Published: 16 September, 2010 • THERE needs to be recognition of the work of organisations like Refugee and Migrant Justice, which was allowed to go into administration in June. Law centres and...
New face of recycling

Published: 16 September, 2010 • I WRITE in response to residents’ letters about the new recycling service and apologise that there have been some early teething problems. The new...
Gentle dog

Published: 16 September, 2010 • WE were shocked to read your story (Heath ‘dog attack’ probed, September 9). We know the dog in question – a Dogue de Bordeaux; in fact, we...
Real danger on the heath

Published: 16 September, 2010 • THE Hampstead Heath management is so busy scaremongering about some imaginary imminent collision between vehicles and man that it ignores the far more real danger...
Buildings affect our children’s learning

Published: 16 September, 2010 • SOUTH Hampstead High School headteacher Jenny Stephen says that the school’s buildings are no longer fit for purpose (Private school digs deep to modernise...
Fears over free schools

Published: 16 September, 2010 • CONCERNING David Wolfe’s Legal Eye piece (‘Schools free to break the rules’ September 9), I’d like to express my concerns about the new...
What about this pay-off?

Published: 10 September, 2010 • I DON’T understand why the Lib Dems are complaining about the £45,000-a-year spin doctor-advisor as what has occurred is precisely what would occur...