Latest Letters

  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • HIGHBURY Roundhouse is a remarkable thing, a community centre which has thrived for more than 30 years right in the heart of Highbury, largely independent of...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • CRITICISING Shirley Scott-Norton and Peter Jones for the clear failings of Islington Borough User Group (iBUG) seems to be aiming at the wrong target (Letters,...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • THE new tenant of the Angel Centre, Cancer Research UK, is applying for a licence to sell alcohol. But there is a glaring mismatch between its official plan as...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • YOU report that Islington Pensioners Forum has been offered 60 tickets for the pensioners’ Christmas party by Islington Council (MP goes on Santa stand-by as...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • I WRITE to reassure readers that we are dealing with the unprecedented demand we have had for school places in Westminster (Wanted: a place in school for 364 kids...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • A SPOKESWOMAN for Bomber Command Association objects to an architect’s comment describing the style of the memorial as like the work of Hitler’s...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • ALTHOUGH the focus has been on the huge protests against the massive increase in student fees proposed by the government, equally important is the Conservative-...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • RESIDENTS have just a few weeks left to give their input into the biggest review of parking our city has seen for a decade. A number of the city’s busiest...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • SO the Bomber Command Association think that planting 25 semi-mature trees will mitigate the felling of the nine mature trees in the Green Park.   This tactic...
  • Published: 17 December, 2010 • I walked onto the high terrace of St Paul’s Cathedral into the circular panorama of London and its limitless shimmering horizon. This, as far as the eye...
  • Published: 16 December, 2010 • CAMDEN has empty desks in its secondary schools mainly as a legacy of Inner London Education Authority.  It also shows that the ConDem decision to place the...
  • Published: 16 December, 2010 • I NOTE from Esther Whitby’s letter, December 9, a reference to Camden residents moving from NW1 out to places such as Thamesmead, designed to alleviate the...
  • Published: 16 December, 2010 • I NEARLY choked on my cornflakes when reading Liberal Democrat leader Keith Moffitt’s Forum (The Town Hall honeymoon’s over, December 9). What seems to...
  • Published: 16 December, 2010 • I AM delighted that generous New Journal readers and employees of Camden Council joined together to sponsor our parachute jump in aid of your Christmas hamper...
  • Published: 16 December, 2010 • CAMDEN School for Girls was founded with the intention of offering affordable education for girls at a time when affordable education, indeed any education at all...