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Camden New Journal - FORUM: Opinion in the CNJ
Published: 10 April 2008
 
Our Heath is under threat from architects building ego projects

Gordon Forbes of the Highgate Society explains why building on the edge of Hampstead Heath is simply out of the question

THE Garden House in the Vale of Health focused attention on the... > more
Letters
Wanted: politicians who will defend GP surgeries
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Our voices silenced
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Will a million Londoners miss out on their vote?
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Libraries do a good job!
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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
 
If teens are willing to speak out on crime, we should be ready to act

IT’S not often teenagers feel comfortable enough to tell the world: “I was robbed” –
or to use their term, “jacked”.

But where there might once have been a stigma attached to admitting falling victim to a petty bus stop robbery (one teenager tells how he was jumped on for a measly half a carton of juice) there is now a stoical expectation that it’s going to happen to you at some time or another while you’re growing up. > more

New-look house design is unsuitable to the area - THE recent exhibition and coverage in the press of the proposed replacement Athlone House demonstrates the... > more

Robot Dad and the search for a vaccine - I WAS interested to read your article (‘When I woke up I had no legs.’ The plight of patient who thought he had gone down... > more

Give the planet and ourselves a break, just eat less meat - CAMDEN Sustainability Task Force is considering a recommendation to reduce the amount of meat... > more

Spring swim and croissants - AS a regular user of the Hampstead mixed and Highgate men’s ponds, I wish to thank the swimmers at Highgate ladies’ pond for their... > more

Mausoleum a dead loss - WHILE £124,000 is being given by English Heritage to restore an 1839 mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery, which houses the dead... > more

A reputation for money-grabbing - WHAT happened to more humane treatment for motorists wishing to park in Camden? > more

We need more like Silla, our own Pocket Rocket - WHAT a remarkable person Silla Carron is – “a Pocket Rocket”. She not only turned her own estate around... > more

Dedication - THERE can be very few more dedicated, imaginative and inspiring people working in inner-city youth and community work than Eleanor Botwright... > more

Jock’s impressive record in fighting for tenants’ rights - I READ the obituary of Jock Stallard (A stalwart of socialism and a man of unshakable principle, April 3)... > more

Thin edge of wedge - THE Mansfield Conservation Area has now suffered the sixth, or is it the seventh, application from a developer so keen to squeeze every last... > more

Pushing the envelopes - I PLACED a free advertisement in the New Journal last week and, even before I had seen the issue, I had three phone calls and a... > more

Advice and support available for vulnerable - AS readers of your Letters pages know, many older Camden residents feel their lives are being made harder... > more

Youth work loses out - SOME readers involved in community groups may be aware that a secretive new process has resulted in local groups losing out on vital funding... > more

Parents’ concern over secondary school - ROBIN Young’s letter (Don’t block expansion, April 3) misrepresents the council’s March 25 consultation meeting on the... > more

Go green? - FOUR times I have called Camden Council to ask for a green recycling bag so my rubbish can be recognised by local recycling trucks and collected weekly. > more

Avoiding terrorism - COUNCILLOR Faruque Ansari’s focus (How to keep youth out of terrorists’ arms, March 13) and comparison of Prince Harry to would-be... > more

Police noise too much - WHY do we have to listen to so many police cars with sirens roaming our streets, especially on a Sunday morning? > more

Praise for practice - I WOULD like to praise the work of the Adelaide Medical Centre. > more
 
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