Latest Letters

  • TRIBUTES TO BERYL BAINBRIDGE - Memories of Beryl
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • “HELLO sweetie, have you seen Rudy? I seem to have mislaid her.” It was Beryl Bainbridge. Beryl quite often mislaid things, sometimes including her...
  • TRIBUTES TO ELLEN LUBY- The politicians’ conscience
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • EVERYONE I speak to says the same about the passing of our dear Ellen Luby, it is the end of an era (New Journal, July 15). Ellen was a thorn in the side of many but...
  • Tenants can’t afford this
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • I AGREE that it is unforgivable that cuts are being made to housing benefits, but it is also bad for those of us who are working and have had massive rent and...
  • Secure unit for men not wanted on our doorstep
    Published: 22 July, 2010 • AS a local resident I must thank your newspaper for advising us that the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust is developing a very unwelcome 15-bedded male...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Labour need a moral compass to steer past cuts
    Published: 22 July, 2010 THAT master of spin, David Cameron, who began his working life as a PR man for a TV channel, has set the Con-Dem Coalition on a new course. He is accusing Labour of...
  • An exceptional case to develop our school
    Published: 22 July, 2010 Open letter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education • WE understand that the review of a small number of Building for Schools sample projects, of which...
  • FORUM: Pure science or business expedience? - Debate on plan for UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation laboratory in Somers Town have been stifled, says John Mason
    Published: 22 July, 2010 THE decision to appoint new architects for the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation underlines the need to question the entire project.  Wider questions...
  • We must complain
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • I CANNOT stress the importance of filing stage one and two formal complaints to Homes for Islington (HfI), Islington Council and the ombudsman. I have spent more...
  • How secure is this unit?
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • CONCERN has been expressed about the way that Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust manages to look after people and protect the public, its own staff and patients...
  • Curb police car speeds
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • I LIVE in a street near Highbury Park which is probably one of the most dangerous stretches of road for pedestrians in London. Using the zebra crossing at the...
  • My red card for pay-to-play football pitches at our park
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • AS a local resident and past chairman of the Friends of Finsbury Park, I would like to register my strong objections to the scheme to site commercial five-a-side...
  • Health centre: it’s a case of decision made, matter over
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • BARB Jacobson’s letter on the struggle to keep Finsbury Health Centre open was timely (End health centre saga, July 2). It seems that the well-renumerated...
  • War stories
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • I AM seeking information for a book about pregnant women and mothers with young children evacuated during World War Two. If readers have memories to share they...
  • Eyesores?
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • SO Douglas Walters and his friends aren’t “pompous politicians” (Other avenues for the protesters, July 9). But on the issue of the “...
  • Summer’s plague of cyclists
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • SUMMER is on us again and the pavements have been infested with even more cyclists. Who will rid us of  this plague? Will it be the govern­ment, the MPs...