We need to know if we can trust party-goers

brought that into sharp focus.

Research conducted for the Ramblers in 2020 by YouGov showed, for example, that just 46% of respondents on the lowest income had easy access to green space, compared with over 70% of those with the highest income levels.

The Ramblers is campaigning for local councils to improve our local path network, create new green routes that link people to nature, and to support programmes that encourage people to enjoy walking.

As the May 5 local council elections approach, readers can help us by writing to their local candidates, asking them to work with the Ramblers and support the Ramblers manifesto for making access to nature more equal for everyone.

They can find out how to do this at ramblers.org.uk/localelections 2022.

Mark Griffin

REGARDING the police refusal to name and shame those fined for breaking Covid laws over the Partygate scandal, surely some of those involved are in a position of trust and, if they cannot be trusted, then it is in the voting public’s interest to know they are untrustworthy.

The fines they receive will be a drop in the ocean compared to their extortionate earnings.

Remember the two lads who were fined £10,000 each for organising a snowball fight? Outdoors.

Our PM (sorry, his name leaves a nasty taste in my mouth) is still in denial that he has done anything wrong.

Unless these offenders are made an example of, and realise that their selfish actions will put doubt on another term in office, what will they learn?

They have already buried the Russia report – did Putin get them in? And it looks like the Sue Gray report has joined it in the Bermuda Triangle.

Disgusting.

Phil Rowe

A moment’s reflection afterwards made me realise that there were many people whom I would never meet but who were also responsible for this very quick but oh-soimportant treatment.

Yes, the scientists who worked all hours to develop the vaccine in 2020; the NHS administrators and government civil servants, local and national, who have created this very complex programme of vaccinations; all the drivers who have delivered it to the many places where vaccinations are happening; the many thousands of NHS staff who spent years in education and training to become qualified medical professionals able to do this; and, I am sure, many others not mentioned.

Sometimes, these procedures can end up seeming routine.

That must surely be good evidence of the success of the vaccination programme, turning what must have felt almost impossible to achieve at first into yet another “taken for granted” activity.

Let’s try to remember not to take this for granted.

Les Gallop