Latest Letters

  • Undignified
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • THE idea to build a memorial to Bomber Command is important – too often generals are immortalised in statues while our soldiers are forgotten in a blur of...
  • A disaster!
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • AS yet a full planning agreement has not been reached for the memorial structure in the Green Park.  It is earnestly to be hoped it never will; and that...
  • RAF already has a memorial
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • MARK Newberry (Letters, January 7) asked why some people object to the proposed memorial to Bomber Command in Green Park.  One of the main reasons is perhaps...
  • Cuts threat to police
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • ISLINGTON has seen record numbers of police officers recruited over the last 10 years as crime and the fear of crime have fallen across London. Now, this success is...
  • Contract concerns
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • IT might seem like just a load of rubbish, but deciding who will process our waste has now become the focus of a coalition of people across north London. ...
  • Dogs jibe offensive
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • YESTERDAY, I listened with interest to comments about dog control orders on Paul Ross and Gaby Roslyn’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London.  This was...
  • A vision for school site
    Published: 14 January, 2011 • WE are concerned that attention is paid to the interests of residents regarding the redevelopment of the old Bowlers site at Crouch Hill by Ashmount School (Play...
  • FORUM: Boris must pick up ‘superlab’ pieces
    Published: 13 January, 2011 by JOHN MASON The go-ahead for the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation laboratory in Somers Town represents a political capitulation  How did they do...
  • If Labour fails to be a party of the radical left, it faces death
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I OFFER anyone a wager.... Labour will not be back in power for a generation.   Listening to their tormented and reactive drivel they have learned nothing from...
  • Path plan attacks on our heritage, environment and rights
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • THE proposal to stop up Grove End at the end of the historic College Lane footpath (Developers want to turn historic path into car park, January 6) which provides a...
  • Insanity!
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • A REPORT will be going before the council cabinet titled Housing Revenue Account Rent Charges Review, in which head of housing Councillor Julian Fulbrook proposes...
  • Politics of housing
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I ATTENDED the joint District Management Committee  meeting on Thursday – a big annual set-piece where five area committees for tenants’/ residents...
  • Tough cuts decisions
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • CAMDEN is facing the most severe cuts to funding for a generation.  As a result we have to take some very tough decisions about all the services we provide,...
  • Religious leaders could learn a lot from William Shakespeare
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives, and him...
  • It’s unreal
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • IN their latest proposals to justify the closure of two local mental hospitals, directors of the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust have come up with a...