Lewis is in pole position

I am so sick of the high street bleating about how hard done by they are (“10,000 more shops to close”, December 30).

They only have themselves to blame. I would willingly shop on the high street if they sold what I wanted to buy and at the right price.

Admittedly, councils have not helped with high parking charges and rates, nor have they learnt the lesson that pricing people out is not in their interest either.

Take M&S, which steadfastly refuses to accept who its market is – partly due to ageism and partly buyers being too young to understand the market.

I may be M&S’s target shopper but I don’t want to dress as a 16-year-old or like my granny.

There is a marketplace for me but sadly, currently, it is on the internet and they are happy to accept my money. Elizabeth Baigent, Purley, Surrey Carole Gates, Swansea Am I the only one who wonders why five-time world Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has not been knighted? Ken Whibley, Birchwood, Cheshire will be banned from applying for social housing as he has money in the bank due to having to sell his property.

So all the money he worked for and put into his mortgage will be used up. The rent on his new flat will make it almost impossible to find a job that will pay the rent.

When we live in a country that puts economic migrants before Englishmen whose grandparents fought for this country can politicians be surprised that these folk then have Right-wing views? Adrian Bonnington, Northampton return to the proven, earn and learn, traditional hospital ward-based nurse training.

12. Ignore anything that the Royal College of Nursing has to say.

13. Replace the nursing governing body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, with something that is fit for purpose.

14. Sack Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

15. Bring back the traditional nurse uniform to reassure patients, particularly the elderly, and boost the morale of nurses.

16. Promote nursing as a career to school and college leavers.

17. Priority allocate genuinely local affordable key worker homes to nurses.

18. Initiate a no-blame clinical incident reporting system as is operating in Western Australia.

There needs to be an inquiry into how certain individuals and organisations have been allowed to push nursing to the brink of collapse.

Ian Brown SEN RGN Dip,

Feltham, West London