Scandal of sweatshops

In the closing decades of the last century, the once-thriving textile industry in Leicester was hit by cut-price competition from the Far East and Indian subcontinent, with their pitifully low wages. However, there has been a revival recently. It would be ironic if this resurrection was being facilitated by importing the same conditions and standards that led to its previous collapse. Andrew Yardley, Burbage, Leicestershire

It is astonishing that such appalling conditions exist here.

Z. Pradyer, Chessington, Surrey