Latest Letters

  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • SO Prime Minister David Cameron is terrified about prospects of his kids going to a state school (This school’s class is not in debate, David, Diary July 16)....
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • WE all know that young people are influenced by what they see around them. It is ridiculous that cigarettes are openly on sale in newsagents and supermarkets,...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • A SPLURGE by the Labour government led national debt to balloon before the bank bailouts: from 30 per cent of GDP in 2002 to 37 per cent in 2007. In 2007/08,...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • WESTMINSTER Council is not going to force schools to seek permission to use its parks and open spaces. Westminster’s parks are open to all and we are not...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • YOUR story about revising park bye-laws unfortunately misses the point. This is not about restricting access to parks for children, but more about stopping...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • FOLLOWING the pedestrianisation of Lisle Street and the bottom part of Wardour Street, I would like to thank all those involved. The easiest thing for the authorities...
  • Published: 30 July, 2010 • YOUR article regarding the use of parks by schools (‘Can we play in the garden please, sir?’ July 23) loses sight of the fact that the Violet Hill...
  • Published: 23 July, 2010 • I HAVE just finished reading your article (Gangs fight ‘like a scene from a war’, July 16) that occurred in and around the Mozart estate area. I actually...
  • Published: 23 July, 2010 • I MUST comment on the frustration of Soho and the West End’s shops and delivery firms regarding this new cycle hire scheme being brought in by Boris Johnson...
  • Published: 23 July, 2010 • THE Prime Minister’s plan to launch pilot laboratories to test drive the “Big Society” is welcome and local government must seize this opportunity by...
  • Published: 23 July, 2010 • THIS week Labour councillors took the unusual step of putting down a motion at the council meeting calling for the resignations of both council leader Colin...
  • Published: 23 July, 2010 After returning from the finals in South Africa, Murad Qureshi (above) reflects on the results away from the football field and what lessons London can learn from them...
  • Published: 16 July, 2010 • I AM seeking information for a book about pregnant women and mothers with young children evacuated during World War Two. If readers have memories to share they...
  • Published: 16 July, 2010 • SO Douglas Walters and his friends aren’t “pompous politicians” (Other avenues for the protesters, July 9). But on the issue of the “...
  • Published: 16 July, 2010 • SUMMER is on us again and the pavements have been infested with even more cyclists. Who will rid us of  this plague? Will it be the govern­ment, the MPs...