The Independent London Newspaper
4th February 2012

Letters

Latest Letters

  • Misleading
    Published: 2 January, 2012 • With reference to your report (‘You ride too rough!’, January 26), Camden Cycling Campaign (CCC) have been grateful for the New Journal’s continued...
  • Improve repairs
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • Labour councillors try to absolve themselves of all responsibility of putting up council rents saying that housing repairs would suffer, but this is inexcusable...
  • Hardship
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • I am one of those council tenants on a very low income who will be very affected by the 8.1 per cent increase in council rents. I remember the days when...
  • Traffic lights inanity
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • I am mystified why Camden Council officers and the cabinet member for sustainability and transport still want to continue with their project to have no traffic...
  • Ludicrous link line
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • Of course, Euston – which I have previously described as prospectively becoming London’s “Ground Zero” hole in the ground for a decade...
  • Monorail threat
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • While not wishing to defend HS2 for a minute, I am at least able to allay the fears of Primavera Boman-Behram concerning subterranean rivers in the borough (Letters...
  • The sardine syndrome
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • I concur with June Craig and Ann Cartwright (Letters, January 26) when they say the No 168 bus should still terminate at South End Green. If the 168, ended at...
  • Dignity in death, please
    Published: 2 January, 2012 • I agree with Katherine Lennard’s sentiments – I too wish to be control of my death (‘We are all going to die. Who doesn’t want a say in it?...
  • Legislation
    Published: 2 January, 2012 • I endorse Katherine Lennard’s views on assisted suicide (January 19). It is unbelievable that in this day and age we have still not managed to enact...
  • Living wills
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • Poet and secretary to Florence Nightingale, Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) wrote the well-rehearsed couplet, “Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive,...
  • How key NHS staff stand to take a cut in their wages
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • There is a job within the NHS that remains all but invisible but yet provides a very necessary service for the most vulnerable. The job that I write about is that...
  • Abandoned by Labour?
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • Your Comment, (Rents up… suicidal? January 26) mentions that tenants “…probably felt abandoned by Labour.” You would be correct. The...
  • Shocking
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • I was really shocked to hear of the plans for a replica of the Rio de Janeiro Christ to be put on top of Primrose Hill. I was born opposite Primrose Hill and still...
  • Bad taste
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • About that statue! I am really worried. I do not think that it could be “only be temporary”. It is bad taste to place it in this wrong setting. If we...
  • No better place for Christ
    Published: 2 February, 2012 • We should welcome this wonderful, once-in-lifetime, free, opportunity as a gift from Brazil to have the replica of their famous statue of the Christ figure on...