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Our aim is for Decent Homes
Camden Council owes it to tenants to get its homes up to standard as soon as possible, argues homes and housing chief councillor Chris Naylor
WHEN this council was elected in 2006 we committed to getting Camden’s council housing up to date. > more |
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Expenses scandal shouldn’t cost us our democracy
NEWSPAPERS and TV are overflowing with stories about corruption in the Commons as if something extraordinary has occurred.
In fact, the Commons has been a bed of various vices since, at least, the era of Rotten Boroughs in the 19th century to the various scandals in the 1960s and 1970s engulfing Cabinet ministers from Marples and Maudling to Callaghan. In those two decades publications were more coy, except for the irreverent Private Eye. > more
Labour group’s new leader is a real inspiration - I WAS delighted with your Twitter update about Councillor Nasim Ali winning the election for the leadership... > more
Sacking Zac would be a loss to our community - I AM the mother of two teenaged boys and I have lived in the borough of Camden all my life. > more
Beware of the BNP - NOW there is so much disgust with politicians for not doing what they say they do and cheating their expenses, reneging on promises to the... > more
Hacking and lopping trees is not the answer - I READ about the near-crushing of Abdul Rashid with horror. > more
Thanks to Somerfield - TWO weeks ago last Monday (April 27), my friend Ann became ill while we were shopping at Somerfield in Camden High Street. > more
Where are nurses who saved me 32 years ago? - I WONDER if you can help me? I was featured in the (old) Camden Journal in October 1977 when I was involved in... > more
There’s no smoking without fire - YOU report that the fire in Ampthill Square “is believed to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette”( May 7). > more
Mysterious night trains - I LIVE on Savernake Road, behind which the London Overland line runs. > more
Dishonourable House - HISTORY has shown that people in power replicate themselves. The House of Commons is no exception. > more
Repair alert - MY advice to any tenant waiting with baited breath for Camden Council to make much needed repairs to their homes is not to let them in. > more
A dangerous intersection - HOW dangerous does a junction have to get before it becomes a priority? > more
No short-cut - I WAS concerned to read Mick Farrant’s letter about the sudden closure of the Arctic passage to Kentish Town in Gospel Oak. > more
The cost of a dirty canal - ONE of the pleasures of the Regent’s Canal in the spring is seeing ducklings and goslings. > more
A poet’s tears - IF the coarse, crude poem published in the New Journal (Duffy’s capacity to amaze, May 7) is an example of what... > more |
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