Latest Letters

  • Take action on speeding
    Published: 30 July, 2010 • THE inclusion of Wharfdale Road, a 230-metre stretch of main road in King’s Cross, in the scheme proposed by former Green councillor Katie Dawson that brings...
  • FORUM: Imran Khan - Time for People’s Charter is now
    Published: 29 July, 2010 WE all knew that a huge social battle was coming and lawyers were only a part of it. But there is now an alternative to the huge attacks on ordinary working people,...
  • How cuts will bite
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • CAMDEN Federation of Private Tenants shares Frank Dobson’s concerns about the impact housing benefit cuts will have on the borough’s private tenants (...
  • Cap fits?
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • YOU cannot fault Keith Sedgwick’s logic (Government cap fits, July 22) about the problem of finding funding for housing benefits when the bill has risen,...
  • We want our flower pot back, no questions asked!
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • CAN you please help us recover a plant pot bursting with flowers stolen from outside our home in Lymington Road, West Hampstead last Friday July 23.  It...
  • It’s enough to make one weep
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • MAY I draw your readers attention to the removal of the beautiful willow from our open space, opposite the empty National Temperance Hospital, without as much as...
  • Any street memories?
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • CAN New Journal readers help? I’m trying to research the street where my mother grew up but without much success! It was called Seaton Street, NW1, and had...
  • Defend our right to keep the Freedom Pass
    • SO, (‘Cons-Dems’ plans to axe Freedom Pass, July 22).  I hope this is just a rumour. I could go on at great length about the benefits of being a grateful owner of a Freedom...
  • Beware high-speed tunnels under London’s ‘soft’ soil
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • THOSE who claim that there will be no disturbance to Primrose Hill residents from tunnelling and later high speed trains running 20 metres under their homes (...
  • Take pride in our pools
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • I COULD hardly contain my excitement as I awaited my first swim at the refurbished Kentish Town Sports Centre. I was lucky enough to be at the opening ceremony...
  • We are ‘invisible’ victims of a housing catastrophe
    Published: 29 July, 2010 Open letter to Camden’s Housing Division • COULD I please ask you that when the housing association evicts me and my son in August, you will take my child...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Farewell to Asbos – shame the cuts can’t go too
    Published: 29 July, 2010 ANOTHER assault on our civil liberties, the Anti-Social Behaviour Order, is on the brink of passing into history. Thank Goodness! Signals yesterday (Wednesday) by the...
  • Curb smoking
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • WE all know that young people are influenced by what they see around them. It is ridiculous that cigarettes are openly on sale in newsagents and supermarkets,...
  • Fire damage nightmare
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • AlMOST two months ago there was a fire caused by someone setting fire to a motorbike in the courtyard of Whidborne House, on Hillview estate, which is managed...
  • Ray of hope
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • IF the Brill Place lab is approved it will be a disaster, that site has been promised for housing at several different times since 1972. One small ray of hope....