Latest Letters

  • Cuts will prove fatal for most vulnerable
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • REGARDING proposed changes to the services provided by Camden Council for the elderly… I am a volunteer at the Holborn Community Association Good Neighbour...
  • What happened to the Liberals?
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • ALL in this together?  Eton, founded to educate poor scholars, now churns out persons of influence, such as cabinet ministers – none of whose children lack...
  • Our data – on demand
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • THE Office for National Statistics, who are conducting the upcoming census, assure us our data are safe with them for 100 years.   Doubtless the ONS wouldn...
  • Support TUC action
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • THE government has a new mental health strategy, but you’d never know it, as funding for mental health in our area takes a £12.7million cut.  Our...
  • The way we were…
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • WHERE has all the money gone?   The multi-millions brought into Camden by Camden Lock Market, by hugely increasing visitors to the British Museum, and other...
  • Kept out!
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • MY sister in her 96th year has been going daily to the Netherwood Day Centre – she could not be looked after better anywhere I was very annoyed to be refused...
  • Care needs
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • I’VE had the supreme privilege of volunteering for the elderly and the needy for more than 30 years and have seen how desperately the demented and the frail...
  • Freedom?
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • SO freedom passes to the disabled are going to be stopped (Letters, February 24).  If you look after someone you will not be able to take them out for a trip...
  • Force a u-turn on library closures
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • CAMDEN’S libraries should not be pitted against each other.  The consultation is a cause for concern, as it does not allow respondents to express equal...
  • There is an alternative to closing down services
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • YOUR editorial (Labour’s ‘no alternative’ is at odds with the voters) hinted, the big conclusion to be drawn from the budget-setting meeting...
  • Political game
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • IT’S a bit rich of the Tories to criticise Camden for local decisions when they’ve cut close to £100million from our budget. The People’s...
  • I got my purse back
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • On February 17 you published my letter under the heading “Irreplaceable treasure from my stolen purse”.  Guess what! The purse has been returned! I...
  • Come home soon, Tom
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • I WAS so sorry to read about the plight of my old friend Tom Costello (Tom: Fresh section bid, March 3).  Along with his brother, Terry, we played together in...
  • We have become more tolerant as a country, not less
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • JOHN Gulliver (Respecting gay weddings – and the Church’s right to ban them, March 3) missed the point on civil partnerships. An amendment under the last...
  • Have concessionaries been relegated to the underclass?
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • I’VE just spent 45 minutes trying to call Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre to book a class, without luck. I’ve been using Swiss Cottage, Mornington Crescent...