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Published:7 August 2008

Housing is not a commodity to be traded for excess profit

The loss of Culross Building is
just one example of how successive governments have failed to
protect the right to affordable
homes, writes Skip Murphy

LOOKING into the station... > more

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Keep MRC research centre away from London targets
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Trouble on the bus with rude and selfish adults’
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Link up and stand up to bullies in schools row
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Far too many holes in the mental health service net
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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Gang crime? Youth budgets always take a battering

THE bid by the council to employ ex-gang members to cut a swathe through the rising youth crime figures is a refreshing – and surprising – piece of blue-sky thinking .
But does it go far enough?
In the 1970s and early 80s, when the council had a measured... > more

Street parties are too much - AS a Belsize Road resident I am dismayed at the intransigence of the police to a request on two consecutive... > more

More power to the petitioners - WE have all seen how Camden Council seems to be ignoring recent petitions and continues to approve... > more

Annual Mela provides culture in the sunshine - I SPENT the whole of Sunday at the Bangladesh Mela in Coram’s Field last weekend and... > more

Proud film - I WENT to the Camden Town Odeon this week and saw the film Somers Town. > more

Blood money - I WAS pleased health secretary Alan Johnson has stated that no compulsory transfer of NHS assets will be involved... > more

Fuel poverty made worse - CAMDEN Council’s residents face steep energy price hikes, partly due to high oil prices, but also thecouncil. > more

We take youth funding and youth crime seriously - I READ with interest two articles, one on youth clubs coming together for a concert (Youth Clubs... > more

Why do they want to take part of our courtyard? - Carrington’s Property Management have demanded that Camden Housing hand over... > more

Why has democracy lost its way? - I ASK myself “whatever happened to democracy?” so often these days. > more

Church of the future - ONE of the jewels in the lovely residential ward of Cantelowes is undoubtedly Camden Square. > more

Reading Room could itself be the focus of a blockbuster - BRIAN Sewell’s outrage at the sacrifice of the Reading Room at British Museum... > more

Age concern over a fine librarian - AS a retired library assistant in Camden, I used to work with Jill Banerjee (Forced to retire: the librarian with... > more

Lap-dance licences for a shake-up - ON Saturday July 26 a group of people took to Camden High Street and gathered over 100... > more

Boyish-looking politicians – we’ve been here before - WHEN I interviewed Robert Bly, the American poet/ story-teller for the Morning Star in 1990... > more

Coal-fired, no thanks - HUNDREDS of people concerned about climate change – many from Camden – have this week begun a protest... > more