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  • Caretakers not what they were
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I AM a council tenant and have similar experiences regarding new cleaning schedules (Taking care, March 25). In the past caretakers have cleaned the yard, as and when...
  • Communal areas are never done
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • WE have the same problems in our block as the tenant in the letter printed (Taking care, March 25). Veolia sweep the courtyards in our block but the stairs that the...
  • Innovative architecture, historic setting
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • IN your article about the proposal to demolish two modernist houses in Belsize Park Gardens and replace them with four storey faux-Victorian buildings (Campaign to...
  • Good news and bad, with crime
    Published: 1st April • MANY people will be querying why the police only released the picture of the suspected Belsize gun mugger a week after the first instance (Police release image of man...
  • Will developers say anything to get their way?
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • DELEVOPERS will say anything to get their money-making plans rubber-stamped. At an inquiry into plans to build a large student block right next to St George’s...
  • Abandoned, half-built, blots on the landscape are unacceptable
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I WONDER how many other readers have noticed the proliferation of half-built and part demolished buildings in their area?  They are an unexpected and...
  • Staff help
    Published: 1 April, 2010 • I AM an employee at Marks and Spencer, Camden Town. After reading your article about Jennyfer Spencer, (‘When you read this, I’ll be dead’,...
  • Fair shares for all
    • THE Labour Party slogan is A Future Fair for All. Yes, but fairer for some than others, eh. F STURGE Smokehouse Yard, EC1  
  • Stigma of free meals
    Published: 26th March, 2010 • Lib Dem attacks on Labour’s policy of free school meals for all cannot go unanswered. Any system of free school meal provision that depends on parents...
  • Do they fear public?
    Published: 26th March, 2010 • I WAS appalled to witness the treatment of a member of the public who attended the Partners Residents’ Forum in the town hall last Thursday. The...
  • Why ban this boy?
    • I AM distressed by what I consider the insensitive treatment by his school in banning my 10-year-old son from the year-six trip to France. My son and his classmates had their enthusiasm built...
  • Overnight rubbish
    • THERE seems to be a lack of common sense at Islington’s Street Environment Services. Last week, we were informed of changes to our refuse collection service, saying that we should leave...
  • My report fails MP
    • I RECEIVED MP Emily Thornberry’s parliamentary report this week. Mrs Thornberry alerts us to her civil libertarian voting against the invasion of Iraq, her joining the march and voting...
  • £214,000-a-year salary and it’s all ‘because I’m worth it’
    • FOR no rational reason I am prepared to offer supermodel Kate Moss an unconditional indulgence of her every whim when she purrs at me from the goggle box “... because I’m worth it...
  • It would be insane to lose Beaux Arts gem of a foyer
    • THE BEAUX Arts Building style of architecture is present in only a few buildings in London, Europe, New York and a few other places (Flats ‘would ruin ornate masterpiece’, March 19...