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Published: 20 November 2008

Police ‘stop and search’ powers mean safer streets for everyone

Being stopped by police may seem like an invasion of civil liberties, but it’s better than having people die on our streets, writes Johnny Bucknell

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Phoenix arising from the ashes could be new nick
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‘Y’ we need an answer on security and sports centre
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Plan to demolish the Town Hall extension
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Such taxing times for all those who lord it over us
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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Is the Town Hall in control or impotent?

GORDON Brown says one thing in Parliament, the banks do another – and now Camden Council has joined the pack in the hunt for the scalps of small businesses.
Who is in charge? The country is facing its biggest economic crisis for 70 years, according to the Chancellor, yet those who are elected to run it seem impotent at times. > more

New-look Co-op? - THE Co-operative Food in Kentish Town Road near the Tube station has been very recently refitted. > more

Find suitable space for hospital paintings - IN the same issue as Sir Robert Naylor boasts that University College Hospital made a £100million profit from its... > more

Housing disaster - NEW housing minister Margaret Beckett is said to be considering proposals from the Chartered Institute of Housing to scrap council housing... > more

Youth club provision does not come cheap - IF you were one of the millions of people watching Children In Need or the previews last week, you will have seen... > more

Grabbing our money - THE recent 267 per cent increase in builders’ parking permits is staggering. > more

In praise of bus drivers - I AM confused by Ellen Luby’s complaints about the No 24 bus (Letters, November 6). > more

Surgery locums coming and going - I AM concerned at the situation at Camden Road Surgery since the takeover by UnitedHealth. > more

Framework reveals need for vigilance on housing targets - SOME of your readers will have talked about the council’s new planning arrangements, the Local... > more

No one wants to know about inconsiderate dog owner - I AM a housing association tenant living in Royal College Street. > more