Latest Letters

  • Priced out of high street
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • WE have been regular customers of Hair Razors in Kentish Town High Road for a number of years.  Now we hear that it may be forced to close down as the rateable...
  • Hazards in the garden
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • FUMES from charcoal barbecues are carcinogenic.  I suffer from them on every warm day from neighbours’ gardens. No one complains so nothing is done about...
  • Fine words, bleak outlook
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • HAVING attended an Inequalities Forum in Camden last week (currently funded by the PCT), I looked up the government’s white paper on public health, which...
  • No to high speed arrogance
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I REMAIN astonished at Camden Council’s refusal to come out against HS2. HS2 is threatening to pull down over 300 local homes in west Euston and to turn the...
  • Time to run down cyclists?
    Published: 24 March, 2011  • YOUR report (Fined Heath cyclist says: I don’t run down old ladies, March 17) has presented the tabloid “wronged individual against the bureaucrats...
  • Unsafe, falling to bits, yet they’ve put our rents up
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I SEE that London Fire Brigade are taking action against Lewisham council regarding the failure to provide fire escapes for residents in the block in which two women...
  • A no show from HS2 and a non-committal council
    Published: 24 March, 2011 A CHAIR was set aside for an engineer or spokesman for the High Speed Two project at a public meeting but it remained empty. Afraid of facing the flak? A double-booked diary...
  • FORUM: Libya: another catastrophic mess
    Published: 24 March, 2011  by BRUCE KENT ONCE more a war has started with very little evidence that those in favour of it, or even some of those opposed to it, have understood the requirements...
  • FORUM: Illtyd harrington: ‘as i please’
    Published: 24 March, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON Decent human reaction wins as government flops JAPAN closed its doors to the West for many years, slamming them in the face of predatory explorers...
  • No place for shock therapy in treatment of patients
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • IT is frightening to hear that doctors from the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust are still using electro-convulsive therapy over 100 times in a year (Lost...
  • Use reserves
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • I HEAR Camden Council holds reserves of £96.8million with a statutory requirement to hold some 2.5 per cent of their total spend of approximately £320...
  • No vote…
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • SO the No campaign fighting to keep our unfair voting system is driven by the leadership of one party.  Political commentator George Pascoe-Watson blogged that...
  • Gay rights
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • FURTHER to the letter from Dave Ferris (March 17), I would just note: my colleagues at the organisation LGBT Labour, whose annual general meeting in Bloomsbury’...
  • Seen sense?
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • THE consultation period on the proposed cuts to adult social care and preventive services  has now finished.    We hope the council has seen sense and...
  • Listen to us
    Published: 24 March, 2011 • ISSUES like the high speed rail consultation underline the need for a shake-up in democracy (Camden Council yet to condemn high speed train link, March 17). How often...