Latest Letters

  • Experience of housing?
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • WE are a campaign group in the process of writing a book about accessing social housing in Westminster and want to hear your stories. Please contact us at the email...
  • Changes to hit tenants
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • THE proposed changes in housing benefit cuts will really hit Westminster council tenants. Over the last 20 years the Conservative housing policy in Westminster...
  • We have been kept in the dark about area’s future
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • DESPITE Councillor Philippa Roe’s reassurance (Letters, October 1) the consultation processes for the Futures Plan for Church Street, Lisson Green and...
  • FORUM: The Strand Union Workhouse facing demolition
    Published: 8 October, 2010 THE Strand Union Workhouse building in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, is facing demolition – but local historian Ruth Richardson says its dark history means it...
  • Stop NHS double talk
    Published: 8 October, 2010 FOLLOWING a Defend the Whittington meeting on September 16, it was apparent that the public simply do not trust what government groups say regarding the NHS. There...
  • Security calls set off alarm
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • I’D like to warn residents to be on their guard if they receive a telephone call or knock at the door from a firm collecting crime statistics or offering...
  • Park oasis vandalised
    Published: 8 October, 2010 DEBORAH Roberts is not the only person annoyed at what has been done to the little ‘spinney’ at the side of  Whittington Park (Archway, we have a...
  • Rein in the bankers
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • AM I alone in tiring of hearing politicians pleading for more restraint among bankers, especially about big bonuses? The unpalatable truth is that bankers have...
  • A socialist coalition
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • AT last! We have a socialist government.  One that does not steal from the poor to give to the rich... such as espoused by Emily Thornberry and her Labour...
  • Drop veil of secrecy
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • ISLINGTON Council requested an independent audit of the systems and controls used by Partners for Improvement in Islington (PfII) for street property Private...
  • Traffic has its priorities
    Published: 8 October, 2010 • IAN Macpherson complains that the chaotic situation at the crossing at the southern end of York Way in King’s Cross is worsened by the fact that taxis are...
  • Directory phone calls so costly
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • MY telephone bill is paid by direct debit albeit I get a paper bill and thank heavens I do.   As my calls over 50p were mostly directory calls (we do not get...
  • Secrecy of trust is addictive
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • THE Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust is always happy to tell us how well it is doing. Its website blasts its awards. However, it seems unlikely that the...
  • Arrogance
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • THERE’S arrogance behind the proposed superlab which is quite breathtaking.  The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation’s proposals are being...
  • Knowledge of Olga?
    Published: 7 October, 2010 • I AM researching and writing a book on the life of Australian-born actress Olga Brandon (1865-1906), a former resident of Camden Town at least in the later part of...