• SEVERAL months ago the council made the disastrous decision to cut funding to Maiden Lane Youth Club.

• A PRIVATE company will start cleaning Camden’s council estates this month.

• THE bus stop opposite Camden Town Tube station, for buses towards Hampstead Heath, was removed several months ago. 

• OUR local used and independent bookshops are not financial basketcases as your article (Write Off? January 7) implied – there is a continuing demand for used books.

• I SYMPATHISE with A McCarthy (Letters, January 7), the building of the research centre at King’s Cross will be a great inconvenience, and views will be lost all around when the new bui

• THE letter (Medical science is a boon to all humanity, December 31) was entirely correct in responding to the letter the previous week about the value of medical science.

• IT’S good news that we may get 63 new council homes built. 
It shows that if you fight you can get results.

• THANK you for the Christmas hampers donated by the New Journal and readers.

• I HAD the misfortune to mislay my keys last week, including that to the communal door of my block of flats.

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THE women would arrive in batches, like the supplies of feed for livestock or winter fuel.