Latest Letters

  • Women lose
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • THE Camden & Islington Mental Health Trust is proposing to close up to a third of its in-patient beds on the grounds that it has too many empty beds.  ...
  • Silence!
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • SOME maintain a “convenient silence” on the proposals to close two of the Islington & Camden’s NHS Foundation Trust’s four hospitals...
  • Mental health and the need for shelter
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • THE proposal (Letters, January 6) to use St Luke’s Hospital as a shelter for the homelessly mental ill during the very cold weather is certainly interesting...
  • Opposition in Somers Town
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I AM one of the local residents who opposes the plan of the medical research centre in Somers Town, living right next to the site, but feeling pretty much...
  • Music is so important
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • WE write to express our concerns about the cutting of the Camden Music Services, and what it means to us. We, Nathan, 15, Rachel, 14, Judith, 13 and Joel-Isaac, 12...
  • Issues of gender and organs in cold water
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • THANK you for including me in the photograph with the other two Christmas Day Hampstead Heath Ponds Lifebuoys race winners (A big dip in the temperature, December...
  • Misery with the bedbugs
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I READ about the terrible infestation of bedbugs in New York and I wonder if Camden are not inviting a similar outbreak here by not tackling the issue in my home. I...
  • On the buses with big egos
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • OH, I did get a laugh out of Tom Copley (Fares rise not so fair, Letters, January 6) dismissing Boris’s new Routemasters as a money-wasting “vanity...
  • An emotive balancing act
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I READ Richard Osley’s article (Labour urged to rethink council tax freeze by own party, January 6) with genuine interest.  As a party and Labour...
  • High speed revelations
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • I DON’T think Camden residents have yet grasped the impact of the revised routes now proposed for the proposed High Speed 2 rail route, duplicating the train...
  • We cannot let down our old people – we owe them
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • IT was with a great sense of unease that I read the letters about the threat of closure to the Great Croft Resource Centre (Think again about closing a centre that...
  • CNJ COMMENT- Tension in the ranks of the anti-cuts campaigners
    Published: 13 January, 2011 AN unwholesome whiff of rancour hung over short stretches of a protest rally at the Town Hall on Monday as a few members of the crowd unfairly taunted Frank Dobson for not...
  • Library policy hits poor people
    Published: 13 January, 2011 • HERE may well be some grains of truth in Councillor Julian Fulbrook’s diatribe against Conservative MP Mike Freer’s views on student grants (No ladder...
  • Will our streets become a hospital overspill car park?
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • I CAN see that the Town Hall’s parking “roamer” scheme makes sense for many Islington residents, but not for us in the Whitehall Park area, in the...
  • Law on dogs inadequate
    Published: 7 January, 2011 • YOU have reported at least two instances of death and/or injuries, from dogs. The danger­ous dogs legislation has clearly proved inadequate.  What is needed...