Latest Letters

  • Well done the Northern line drivers
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • AS a fan of driverless trains I am probably not the most popular politician with the Northern line drivers; however, I like to be even-handed and salute them for...
  • Curse of the multinationals
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • TWO Tescos in West Hampstead and now a Sainsbury’s.   While some people may jump with joy, I am in despair. When will people wake up and realise?...
  • Managerial mess hits many estates
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • SO proposals are afoot for consideration of sharing a chief executive of Islington with Camden (Is this the first ‘super borough’? September 9). Don...
  • People deserve better than this neglect by Network Rail
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • I’M glad to see that your corres­pondent Bruce Robertson (Weak bridges a way to Hell, September 9) has drawn atten­tion to the deplor­able...
  • Our scientists have an exemplary safety record
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • THE world-leading medical research centre planned for St Pancras and Somers Town will tackle diseases that affect us all.  It is an unprecedented opportunity...
  • I probably owe my life to the out-of-hours doctors
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • “NO one I know trusts Camidoc,” Stephen Hargreave sweepingly asserts (Why this support for Camidoc? Letters September 9). Well, I can’t speak...
  • A house the community fought to save almost slips away
    Published: 16 September, 2010 EDITOR'S COMMENT THANK goodness One Housing Group housing association had the common sense, at the eleventh hour, to withdraw a house they had planned to put under the...
  • Vote coast
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • NINE months ago, the Marine and Coastal Access Act passed into law, so confirming the widely held view that the coast is a national treasure that we should all be...
  • Legal cuts
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • THERE needs to be recognition of the work of organisations like Refugee and Migrant Justice, which was allowed to go into administration in June. Law centres and...
  • New face of recycling
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • I WRITE in response to residents’ letters about the new recycling service and apologise that there have been some early teething problems.   The new...
  • Gentle dog
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • WE were shocked to read your story (Heath ‘dog attack’ probed, September 9). We know the dog in question – a Dogue de Bordeaux; in fact, we...
  • Real danger on the heath
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • THE Hampstead Heath management is so busy scaremongering about some imaginary imminent collision between vehicles and man that it ignores the far more real danger...
  • Buildings affect our children’s learning
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • SOUTH Hampstead High School headteacher Jenny Stephen says that the school’s buildings are no longer fit for purpose (Private school digs deep to modernise...
  • Fears over free schools
    Published: 16 September, 2010 • CONCERNING David Wolfe’s Legal Eye piece (‘Schools free to break the rules’ September 9), I’d like to express my concerns about the new...
  • What about this pay-off?
    Published: 10 September, 2010 • I DON’T understand why the Lib Dems are complaining about the £45,000-a-year spin doctor-advisor as what has occurred is precisely what would occur...