RAIL ACCESS IS OFF TRACK

This week, 50 organisations are writing to the Secretary of State for Transport to demand that he restores vital Access For All rail projects as the UK still has nearly 80% of stations inaccessible to those with disabilities.

The Government’s own figures show that investment in rail accessibility will be paid back nearly three times over in economic benefits.

We are urging the Department to commit to delivering all deferred Access For All projects by the end of 2020. Faryal Velmi, Director, Transport for All; Richard Holmes, Public Affairs Director, RNIB; Linda Burnip, Disabled People Against Cuts and 47 others

Re your story about young couple Darren Noble and Shanine Land saving to get a mortgage, my daughter, Jemma, and her fiancée, Mark, are both 21 and have just brought their first home for £200,000.

Like Darren and Shanine, they have ordinary jobs, no car, don’t go on foreign holidays or out for meals and don’t have credit cards. I’m so proud of them both, they are a credit to their generation. Joann Ware Hastings, East Sussex

So, Prince Charles told Tony Blair he thought foxhunting was “romantic” (Mirror, Oct 9). What exactly is romantic about cruelty? That just about sums up the Royal Family. Norma Oswalt Fobbing, Essex