This sporting life?

WHat a revelation! researchers have found that children from poorer backgrounds are 18 per cent less fit after the school holidays than richer teenagers (Mail).

I can tell you why: swimming lessons have been stopped, school playing fields sold off, adventure holidays have been curtailed because of health-and- safety softies, and there are no competitive sports because we can’t have losers. MIKE CATTERALL, Accrington, Lancs.