Latest Letters

  • Will young replace old?
    Published: 28 January, 2011 • A RUMOUR circulating suggests that Sotheby Mews in Highbury will probably close as a day centre for the elderly, with the premises then being occupied by users of...
  • A world we have lost
    Published: 28 January, 2011 • IT was lovely to read Bill Ward (Memories of a market that was a child’s wonderland, January 21). How right he is! I remember Exmouth Market so well.  To...
  • Great Croft centre closure will cost us in the long run
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I AGREE with Liza Lobb (Letters January 13) about the proposed closure of Age Concern Camden’s Great Croft Resource Centre. Its closure, and of Henderson...
  • Flood from the Heath? An Ark might be best solution
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • REGARDING the rebuilding of the pond dams on Hampstead Heath (Heath dam top save 1,500 from flood, January 20), given the low probability  (calculated at once...
  • CNJ COMMENT- City must remember that the Heath belongs to us all
    Published: 27 January, 2011 THE £12million plan to rebuild the banks and dams on the Heath has come into the world with a seal of approval by the  government’s Environment Agency (...
  • Make every vote count
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • THE Camden Yes to Fairer Votes campaign was delighted to read that Conservative Councillor Andrew Marshall is in favour of changing our out-of-date voting system. (...
  • Library consultation must be genuine and not a sham
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • COMMUNITY groups, library friends groups, individual residents and councillors who know the true value of their libraries have every reason to suspect that the...
  • Opposition?
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • THE proposals by the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust to close two of its hospitals with the loss of some 100 beds is not the only attack which the local...
  • Why it’s sick to profit from our ill health
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • DAVID Cameron says that his health reforms are about lives and efficiency.  At the same time, and as Blair goes to Chilcot’s  Iraq Inquiry, Cameron...
  • FORUM: Seven inches of rain fell in one hour
    Published: 27 January, 2011 by SIR ALAN BUDD With news that Hampstead Heath needs £12m spent on strengthening dams to stop a catastrophic flood hitting Dartmouth Park, Parliament Hill Fields...
  • Free minds made up!
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I WAS initially pleased to see the “advert” from the Royal Free Hospital wrapped round the New Journal (January 20). According to the headline, it was...
  • High speed reasoning
    Published: 27 January, 2011 I THINK the reasoning behind locating the terminus of HS2 at Euston and not Paddington is quite clear and not “unspoken” as Councillor Paul Braithwaite makes...
  • Tarmac? It’s green
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I HAVE received a pamphlet from Labour outlining the plan to build flats on the “wasted tarmac” on the Tybalds Close estate. Does anyone realise that...
  • Knee-jerk decision making?
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I READ for the first time last week, reports of plans possibly to sell off various sites in the Abbey area, Kilburn ward, in order to raise funds for the capital...
  • Costly ‘lifestyle choices’
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • AFTER a round of so-called “Decent Homes” works I got a without “actual costs” £10,000 invoice for my share of repairs.  In...