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  • Where is it, what is it?
    Published: 5 March 2010 • INSTEAD of “Midtown” (If you had to get to Midtown would you know where to go? February 26) how about BlooHoSt to denote Bloomsbury, Holborn, St Giles, akin...
  • On bikes, for the record
    Published: 5 March 2010 • YOU did not contact the council for comment in regards to your story on charging for motorbike parking (‘Scrap the charge’ Opposition cites scheme’s...
  • Backing for bookshops
    Published: 5 March 2010 • I WRITE to support Gay’s the Word bookshop. Bloomsbury cannot afford to lose yet another bookshop. Camden has a clearly expressed policy of supporting...
  • Booze ban’s nine years old
    Published: 5 March 2010 • I READ Stuart Barrow’s letter with interest (Will nannying put paid to my Pimm’s in the square? February 26) but would remind him of the rationale for the...
  • Charlton Heston was a defender of individual choice
    Published: 5 March 2010 • IT is a pity that in his review of the latest Michael Moore film Capitalism: A Love Story, your film critic (Review, February 26) had to resort to gratuitous insults...
  • People power wins while Boris scores an own goal
    Published: 5 March 2010 • RESIDENTS worried about the World Cup being screened in Regent’s Park are not Nimbys (not in my back yarders). We had a number of legitimate concerns about public...
  • Time bombs
    Published: 26 February 2010 • IT was related, in the distant past, that a tribe in what is now central Europe, selected its “old people” to be killed and eaten. Adopting this...
  • Let’s stop this mess
    Published: 26 February 2010 • HOW much longer must we endure dog fouling in this area? There appears no will,  nor action to deal with this,  as there is also the problem of rubbish...
  • Violence is the fear
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THE proposed fan zone for Regent’s Park during the World Cup concerns us greatly, particularly the potential for alcohol-fuelled violence spilling out into...
  • Objectors play the same old game
    Published: 26 February 2010 • WHENEVER I see headlines like Red card for park’s World Cup, (February 12), I know that it is because these same famous faces live in or around one of the...
  • Safety first
    Published: 26 February 2010 • DF GOWERS talks about objectors to the World Cup football fest in Regent’s Park, as being “nimbys” (World Cup winner in the park, February 19)....
  • Regent’s Park football fan fest is stuff of madness
    Published: 26 February 2010 • THE Greater London Authority’s proposal to allow a World Cup “fan fest” on Gloucester Green, for just over three weeks, would be wholly inimical...
  • Will nannying put paid to my Pimm’s in the square?
    Published: 26 February 2010 • DOES Westminster Council want to turn Soho into Surbiton?  Soho Square looks better with its renovated hut but, with horror, I also now see a new edict on...
  • World Cup winner in the park
    Published: 19 February 2010 • SUE MacGregor and Sir Simon Jenkins are typical nimbys when it comes to the World Cup screenings in Regent’s Park (Red card for park’s World Cup,...
  • What’s next for the chop?
    Published: 19 February 2010 • FURTHER to Councillor Daniel Astaire’s letter (New team to crack down on anti-social behaviour, February 12) – it is typical of Westminster City Council...