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  • We need a school here now
    Published: 25th March 2010 • OUR association is at the heart of the south Camden area where parents have been campaigning for a local secondary school for as long as most people can remember....
  • Life is sucked out of small traders
    Published: 25th March 2010 The hike in business rates will squeeze small traders to breaking point as they struggle to make it through the downturn • KILBURN Bookshop, on the High Road, has been...
  • Decent?
    Published: 25th March 2010 • COUNCILLOR Ralph Scott unashamedly crows about the government not coughing up the cash for decent homes. The sad fact is that as finance chief of the Lib Dem-Tory...
  • Waste and health cuts
    Published: 25th March 2010 • IT is plain wrong to say that Liberal Democrats have championed NHS privatisation, as Councillor Adrian Oliver claims (Letters, March 4). The Lib Dems have long...
  • Tell us the pay level
    Published: 25th March 2010 • CONTINUING complaints that Camden Council is an officer- rather than elected politician- led council are never more apt than when it comes to the disclosure of pay...
  • Beyond tenants’ law
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I MUST admit to being somewhat puzzled at Anna Moore’s letter (Decent Homes and the law, March 4) advising Camden tenants on tenancy law. I can tell tenants...
  • High-speed rail link needs careful, sympathetic, approach
    Published: 25th March 2010 • WE organised a meeting for local people to learn about the plans for the High Speed 2 rail link. We welcome any move to encourage modern, sustainable, transport...
  • Informing a party’s election manifesto
    Published: 25th March 2010 • YOUR reviewer (March 4) rightly described The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone as “brilliant, profound and provocative”, (Review, Fairer...
  • Scarlet standards
    Published: 25th March 2010 • HOW nauseating it was to read in the report on the funeral of Michael Foot (March 18), that Lord Kinnock led the singing of The Red Flag “though cowards flinch...
  • The Old Campaigner
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I was very sad not to be able to attend John Rety’s memorial, as I was in hospital. I’ve known him since he started Torriano Meeting House poetry nights...
  • Taking care
    Published: 25th March 2010 • FOR the past few years, we had a great caretaker who cleaned our block of flats. Every week he would be sweeping down the stairs from top to bottom, then mopping....
  • Love Camden, hate being told about it
    Published: 25th March 2010 • LIKE Mick Farrant (Letters, March 18), I was very disappointed and upset to find that the Love Camden booklet left out Gospel Oak and Queen’s Crescent. I...
  • Outstandingly good guide to Ofsted-speak
    • AS a new governor at Carlton School I would like to thank the New Journal for the article on our Ofsted inspection (Pupils’ care and guidance ‘outstanding’, March...
  • Apollo OK
    • I WAS expecting a team of unskilled builders, rude site managers, incompetent project managers and insensitive resident liaison officers to descend on my flat over four weeks ago, but to...
  • Paid for…
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I’M pleased the chair of the Labour Party in Hampstead and Kilburn has noticed election posters and literature from the Conservative party (Lording it over us...