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  • Demolition and feeling disbelief
    Published 1 April, 2010 • MORE than 40 years ago we came to Silverdale from one room at the top of a crumbling Victorian house, infested with rats and water running down the walls (High-speed...
  • Who cares for elderly?
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • THIS letter is on behalf of an elderly lady, I care for and visit in the evenings. On one occasion, I found her struggling and panicking, as she tried to inject...
  • Hospital will look into this
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • With reference to the letter (Patients put off with ‘bumped’ appointments, March 25) I was sorry to hear about the difficulty the author has had with...
  • Paving pain
    • MY family and I live close to Camden High Street and have always enjoyed having a walk together, looking in shops, getting a coffee or something to eat as you should be able to do. Every time...
  • Makeover stresses
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • IF anyone out there has any sense they won’t let contractors in to do any makeover to their property, unless they get a cast iron guarantee of the work, how long...
  • Busy… in the Town Hall
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • GIVEN that I supposedly have three “hard-working Liberal Democrat councillors” who campaign tirelessly for Kentish Town it is surprising that I see so...
  • Pick-and-mix of electoral statistics we’ve come to expect
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I READ with interest Conservative candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, Chris Philp, exclaiming that he only needs an extra one in 15 voters in order for him to...
  • Comments on our Bach felt unnecessarily heavy
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I READ Sebastian Taylor’s review of our Bach B Minor Mass performance with dismay (An Olympian feat too far, March 18). Like most of us, I attended all the...
  • The Tube can be a risky place
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • LIBERAL Democrat parliamentary candidate Ed Fordham is not alone in claiming that the Tube’s planned, hours-long, ticket office closures will have “serious...
  • Transport a very real election issue
    Published: 1 April, 2010 Fed up with Labour and angry with how London’s Conservative mayor has messed up works and now proposes deep cuts? Liberal Democrat Ed Fordham says there is an...
  • Nagging questions over tragic demise of Jennyfer
    Published: 1 April, 2010 WHENEVER a government minister or a council spokesman denies a wrongdoing it may be thought that something is probably amiss. And the louder and more unyielding the denial...
  • Jennyfer Spencer’s death: Questions need answers
    • WE call for a public inquiry into the circumstances of Jennyfer Spencer’s death. We are saddened and distressed to learn of the death of Jennyfer (Alex) Spencer, a former primary school...
  • Insensitive
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • THE death of Jennyfer Spencer (‘When you read this, I’ll be dead’, March 25) is deeply upsetting. I think the Care Quality Commission has been...
  • The cost of visiting the pub – and wearing lipstick goes up
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • LIKE most men after a hard week’s work I normally make a bee-line to the pub for a couple of pints on the way home on Fridays. It’s a great way to wind...
  • Heath needs a dogs-on-lead area
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • AT the end of January while standing in the cafeteria area with my son at Parliament Hill, an out-of-control black labrador crashed into the back of my legs. I was...