SIR: Advertising on a police car - I thought it was April Fools Day. (Sponsors fit the bill! - the BEN's front page story last Saturday, September 21). This Government are the pits, with police under-funded and old people's homes closing. Stop giving us tax cuts, fund the police, and look after our old folk.

I earn £500 per week and I am stinking rich and have more than enough. As for Fat Cats on £20,000 per week, I want to know what do they want all this money for, and what they find to spend it on?

Through history, ALL empires all over the world have collapsed! The EEC is the resurrection of the old Roman Empire and it will collapse. Well done the people of Norway for voting to stay out of the EEC; they are doing very nicely.

Now the Scottish Nationalists show us how to do it. Go for it, people of Scotland, I say.

Mr David Hawkins,

Plodder Lane, Farnworth.

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