Latest Letters

  • Why so silent on Food For All?
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • FOR some years now, the oppression of Food For All’s altruism by Camden and Islington councils has resurfaced repeatedly in your newspaper. That the...
  • EDITOR'S COMMENT: Clash of ideologies is underlying the schools row
    Published: 1 September, 2011 A RANCOROUS stand-off is developing between parents anxious to set up a “free school” in Belsize Park and Labour councillors equally determined to thwart them...
  • Bottom end!
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I HAVE just read John Gulliver (August 25) regarding the recent “riot” journalism and middle class journalists’ coverage of it. In one paragraph...
  • Office needs sorting
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • EVERYWHERE else in this town – indeed, in the country – gets its mail mid-morning around 10 to 10.30am. Why in West Hampstead are we lucky to get the...
  • It’s time that our great Grand Union was cared for properly
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I READ recent complaints about duckweed on the Grand Union Canal (GUC) which has now been cleared, but I have to say that over the past 10 years the canal has gone...
  • FORUM: Take the fast track to a new prosperity
    Published: 1 September, 2011 IT may seem odd that someone who makes a living writing about slow travel should be so passionate about the need to build the new high speed line to the north of England...
  • Fed is a lifeline for many tenants
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I WRITE on behalf of the members of the Frognal Estate Residents’ Association who have been members and supporters of the Camden Federation of Private...
  • Policing campaign
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I WOULD like to thank Councillor Tulip Siddiq for her letter (August 25) clarifying the position on Highgate Library. The council has made it clear that the...
  • Illtyd Harrington: Recall – bid time return and it’s back to school
    Published: 1 September, 2011 ILLTYD HARRINGTON: AS I PLEASE JAQUES’ speech in As You Like It sets out in the second stage my vision of all boys going to a new school. “Then the whining...
  • 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...
  • Don’t close the nursery
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • THE reason given for closing the much-loved nursery on the Cressfield estate is that the residents of the estate wish to use the building for various leisure...
  • Secrecy over our services
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • IF it were left to the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust none of the important changes in the mental health services taking place in the borough would...
  • Council’s TV aerial upgrade unnecessary
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • I HAVE previously tried to warn that Camden is spending huge sums of other people’s money on overkill aerial system upgrades and maintenance contracts for...
  • 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...
  • The future of our library
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Tulip Siddiq (cabinet member for culture) says in relation to Highgate Library, Chester Road that: “Highgate Library is not closing. It has been...