Latest Letters

  • Library’s shelf life
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • THE leader of the Labour Group claimed that Charing Cross Library will be closed in his latest campaign to save libraries (A long wait for a book, Letters April 1)....
  • In darkness, bright ideas
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • “HAUNTED by thoughts of death” – hence the “melancholy” of artist Watteau? (Review, Melancholy of an art master, March 25.) Attempts to...
  • Weekend arts group a lifeline
    Published: 8 April, 2011 An open letter to Alan Davey, chief executive of the Arts Council: • THIS letter is a heartfelt protest at the cutting of the Weekend Arts College (WAC) grant. The...
  • Cabbie diversion figures a long way from the truth
    Published: 8 April, 2011 • THE maths being used by Radio Taxis Group (RTG) to attack the left-turn ban in Bloomsbury as damaging to the environment is fishy (Cabbies’ junction ban fury,...
  • Energy bill and beyond
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • FRIENDS of the Earth organised an excellent meeting in the Town Hall to discuss the Energy Bill currently going through parliament (Warm Front, Letters, March 31). We...
  • Yes or No dilemma
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • COME May 5 we have been asked to vote Yes or No on electoral change, well actually I shall be doing neither. Instead I will be taking the third option and spoiling my...
  • Count yourself lucky if you understand ‘values’
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • AS our papers are full of public expressions of appreciation for family homes, day centres, libraries, rural areas and more (albeit in the form of protest at the...
  • Rock on! Unsung Heroes and music on our doorstep
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • I WANT to say a huge thank you to the New Journal readers for so strongly supporting my Unsung Heroes initiative over the last three months.   Over 100 people...
  • The defence review must be reviewed
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • WHILE the country is rightly behind its armed forces, it is nevertheless unwise to ignore some of the flawed decisions this government took in the October defence...
  • Costly HS2 is not on
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • IF transport secretary Philip Hammond is to be believed “High Speed Rail” is a national status symbol.  He says “Britain cannot afford to be...
  • Unfair to motorists
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • IF you are paying for a parking permit in Camden then you are paying too much unless you happen to own a vehicle that is over 25 years old where you are issued with a...
  • High time for taxi drivers to clean up their act
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • I COULDN’T believe my eyes when I read the article ‘Cabbies hit out at left-turn ban’(March 24).   The cab drivers’ spokesman, Geoffrey...
  • Thanks for the help
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • I WOULD like to thank all the neighbours and children who helped me on Saturday (April 2) when I had an accident with my car in Langbourne Avenue, N6.  NAME AND...
  • An alternative we wouldn’t want
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • SARAH Allen and Lee Baker call for a debate about the Alternative Vote (March 31).  I would suggest that the Lib Dems are the only crowd likely to benefit from it...
  • No junk for lunch
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • I GUESS that the headteacher of Acland Burghley School is doing the job on behalf of the parents of the pupils (Lunchtime lock-in, Letters, March 31). As a parent of...