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Published: 23 August 2007

‘Savings’ have cost me £40

• THE Lib Dem/Tory council is making much play of the fact that they have frozen council tax.
By my reckoning that’s cost me £40, so far. At the weekend, I went out to jump on my bicycle, which had been chained on a moderately busy street in Somers Town. But there was something missing – the seat and seatpost. I know, if not by name then certainly by type, the “thief” – a group of boys aged seven or eight, so the bicycle shop mechanic told me. He’d seen them with their prize and tried, but failed, to take it off them. The replacements cost £40.
Those boys might on that sunny holiday day have been taking out their energy and sense of mischief on the climbing wall at the Jubilee Centre, but it has been closed for lack of funds.
They might have been at other holiday play schemes in south Camden, were they not also closed. In the future they might be using facilities on Brill Place, the last available block of land in Somers Town on which a swimming pool, some squash courts, lots of other facilities for youthful energy to be harmlessly expended, could be built.
Instead, the council is “saving” me money by not providing such facilities. I’m not sure how many more such “savings” I can afford.
natalie bennett
South Camden co-ordinator
Green Party

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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