Latest Letters

  • Recycling arguments
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • THE only answer that I have received from Camden to my open letter (A fine thanks for my recycling effort, August 19), was an addition of insult to injury. On...
  • An answer on planning
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • BY promising to investigate why officers used their delegated powers to grant planning permission to the dodgy development on Estelle Road (Answers, Letters,...
  • Adding to the growing wave of anti-Israeli hate speech?
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • IN the excitement of racing off to far-off Islington to attend an event at which Israel’s misdeeds are given yet another airing, John Gulliver (August...
  • Go A&E
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • YOU report about Camidoc and out-of-hours medical cover (Camidoc goes to law over rejection by NHS, August 26). If part of the rationale of NHS Camden’s...
  • Tax exiles
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • DENIS Healey’s  “squeeze the rich” Budgets (As I Please, Illtyd Harrington, August 26) put up income tax to ludicrous top levels of 83 per...
  • Costs of caretaking
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • FURTHER to the letter (Mopping up after them, August 19) about poor caretaking in council flats  I, too, have to clean our disgusting flat entrance and...
  • Ensuring pub noise is kept down
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • MANY pubs have closed in our part of Kentish Town – the Prince of Wales being the latest. Flats will replace it, so it is rumoured. At one time small...
  • So negative!
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • AS a Labour ward councillor for Gospel Oak I find it sad that your correspondents continue to emphasise the negatives (many of which are inaccurate and out of date...
  • An example of out-of-hours healthcare in operation
    Published: 2 September, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Paul Braithwaite suggests Camidoc should have been awarded the contract for Camden and says privatisation is bad (Letters, August 26). I disagree....
  • Silence over pledge to rid us of this thorn in our side
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • WITH just a few months left of the Decent Homes programme, is it not time to get rid of the thorn in many Islington residents’ sides – Homes for...
  • Contempt for workers
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • I HOPE David Collins feels better after having got his outburst off his chest (Is a home for life right? August 20). Council accommodation is not “...
  • Curb house price rises
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • HYPER housing inflation may feel good for some home-owners, but it is causing boom and bust in our economy. Rising house prices eventually cause excessive over...
  • Teenagers can walk
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • WE should save the Freedom Pass for pensioners who cannot walk and stop the free travel pass for teenagers who can and should walk. Pensioners use the Freedom...
  • Our town green plans
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • RESIDENTS have made a bid to create a “town green” at Marie Lloyd Gardens, off Hornsey Rise, Upper Holloway, undertaken following Open Spaces...
  • Let tenants have a say
    Published: 27 August, 2010 • WHAT makes the sorry tale of self interest triumphing over morals and due diligence at a time when swingeing cuts make it even less acceptable (Tenants in row...