Latest Letters

  • Comments on our Bach felt unnecessarily heavy
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I READ Sebastian Taylor’s review of our Bach B Minor Mass performance with dismay (An Olympian feat too far, March 18). Like most of us, I attended all the...
  • The Tube can be a risky place
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • LIBERAL Democrat parliamentary candidate Ed Fordham is not alone in claiming that the Tube’s planned, hours-long, ticket office closures will have “serious...
  • Heath needs a dogs-on-lead area
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • AT the end of January while standing in the cafeteria area with my son at Parliament Hill, an out-of-control black labrador crashed into the back of my legs. I was...
  • The cost of visiting the pub – and wearing lipstick goes up
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • LIKE most men after a hard week’s work I normally make a bee-line to the pub for a couple of pints on the way home on Fridays. It’s a great way to wind...
  • Insensitive
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • THE death of Jennyfer Spencer (‘When you read this, I’ll be dead’, March 25) is deeply upsetting. I think the Care Quality Commission has been...
  • Jennyfer Spencer’s death: Questions need answers
    • WE call for a public inquiry into the circumstances of Jennyfer Spencer’s death. We are saddened and distressed to learn of the death of Jennyfer (Alex) Spencer, a former primary school...
  • Nagging questions over tragic demise of Jennyfer
    Published: 1 April, 2010 WHENEVER a government minister or a council spokesman denies a wrongdoing it may be thought that something is probably amiss. And the louder and more unyielding the denial...
  • Transport a very real election issue
    Published: 1 April, 2010 Fed up with Labour and angry with how London’s Conservative mayor has messed up works and now proposes deep cuts? Liberal Democrat Ed Fordham says there is an...
  • Caretakers not what they were
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I AM a council tenant and have similar experiences regarding new cleaning schedules (Taking care, March 25). In the past caretakers have cleaned the yard, as and when...
  • Communal areas are never done
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • WE have the same problems in our block as the tenant in the letter printed (Taking care, March 25). Veolia sweep the courtyards in our block but the stairs that the...
  • Innovative architecture, historic setting
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • IN your article about the proposal to demolish two modernist houses in Belsize Park Gardens and replace them with four storey faux-Victorian buildings (Campaign to...
  • Good news and bad, with crime
    Published: 1st April • MANY people will be querying why the police only released the picture of the suspected Belsize gun mugger a week after the first instance (Police release image of man...
  • Will developers say anything to get their way?
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • DELEVOPERS will say anything to get their money-making plans rubber-stamped. At an inquiry into plans to build a large student block right next to St George’s...
  • Abandoned, half-built, blots on the landscape are unacceptable
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I WONDER how many other readers have noticed the proliferation of half-built and part demolished buildings in their area?  They are an unexpected and...
  • Staff help
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I AM an employee at Marks and Spencer, Camden Town. After reading your article about Jennyfer Spencer, (‘When you read this, I’ll be dead’,...