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Camden New Journal - Forum: Opinion in the CNJ
Published: 7 May 2009
 
Rich MPs have lost touch

In 1974 popular leader of Camden Council Millie Miller gave up 30 years of unpaid service as a councillor to work as a paid MP. Parliament then was a world away from what it is today, as her son Bernard Miller explains

SLEAZE! Corruption! Snouts in troughs! Sounds like the 1990s all over again. > more
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Labour group experience will help to end divisions
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Does new warden regime restrict OAPs’ freedom?
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Inadequate repairs and the immorality of homes sales
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Have a word with insurers about tree troubles
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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
 
Royal Mail inflexibility reaches all the way to Albany St

WHILE the government is being torn apart over the future of the Royal Mail, what may be consid ered a lesser question arises over a post office in Albany Street, Regent’s Park.
To the protesters, the parliamentary battle between the unelected Peter Mandelson, who wants to semi-privatise the Royal Mail, and his opponents, nearly 150 Labour MPs, all this may seem a lot of high politics. But it is, in fact, directly linked. > more

The rights of Londoners to use the Heath must be paramount - WE support the 13 members of the Heath Consultative Committee in their opposition to the... > more

Let’s clean up the air we breathe - THERE are two modern plagues afoot just now and one of them is hard to hide from. > more

Great leisure centre, but such poor maintenance - I APPRECIATE the Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre but am concerned at how it is being run. > more

Health of democracy - ELECTIONS for the European Parliament take place next month, prompting the question: just who is the present MEP? > more

It’s time to ban tenants from keeping dogs - CAMDEN must urgently ban council tenants from owning dogs full stop, except for the elderly, perhaps. > more

In dark over short-cut - FOR those of us who live in Gospel Oak and need to go to Kentish Town there is a short-cut (saving the best part of a kilometre) via Arctic... > more

Macabre army show - I WAS one of the protesters last Wednesday outside Dingwalls, the Camden venue hired by the Zionist Federation to showcase singing members... > more

Why axe the budget? - THANK you for your excellent coverage of the lobby outside Camden town hall of Chalcot School staff who were protesting against the... > more

Parking is far from fine - AS residents of a neighbouring borough, we frequently use Camden roads but are terrified of the parking regime, and so rarely stop if we... > more

Post office under threat - I AM extremely concerned about the proposed closure of Albany Street Post Office, located in Kings Pharmacy. This closure would put... > more

Moggach’s garden magic - I HAVE to thank you for Tom Moggach’s article on growing your own (April 24). > more

Milkonomics - UNEXPECTED guests shortly arriving. Find I have run out of milk – panic! Get from local shop round the corner in West End Lane... > more
 
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