I strongly disagree with Mr Simpson on his erroneous statement. The post office closures have everything to do with the EU.
How do I know this? You only need to look through a search engine on one the many of the EU websites that are freely available to discover the truth.
The claim that the use of the internet is one reason for the closure of post offices, is nothing more that a fig leaf to hide truth.
Admittedly the wording is cumbersome and written in EU-speak, which makes it difficult to understand, but it is there in black and white, to open up competition and create a European postal service within member states!
You will find clear evidence that this is the work of the EU, so please Mr Simpson do not try to deny this. Perhaps Mr Simpson would like to explain to the readers of this newspaper, what exactly EU directives 97/67/EC and 2002/39/EC are?
Will Heyes, Gantley Avenue, Billinge

Don't ignore baby survival rates
The recent abortion decisions by our MPs totally ignores the advances in technology which now enable us to see the development of a baby in the womb day by day.
They also give lie to the original concept of the foetus as just a cluster of cells when in fact very early in the pregnancy the baby is fully formed and merely increases in size until birth weight is reached.
Recent births of babies at 20 weeks endorse this and I myself was born in 1946 very prematurely and weighing only 3lbs.
The loss to society of unborn talents is immeasurable. In Russia, where 70% of pregnancies are terminated, it is now realised that as the population ages the country is heading for oblivion and needs drastic repopulation.
What about the human rights of the millions of innocents that are being prevented from being born?
What a sad world we live in.
Don Stables, via email

See through spin of MPs' luxury
Can't everyone see the simple reason why so many MPs and Euro MPs bang the drum about our needing to be part of the EU and that pulling out would be a disaster for this country?
Forget all their warped reasoning, justification and 'spin' you've heard from these people – the simple fact is that membership of the EU provides an overpaid, cushy living to too many of our so-called representatives and they will tell us anything whatsoever in order to protect their snouts in the trough.
Joe Public is being legally mugged by these parasites.
Mark Woods, via email

Take more action to end fuel hike
I support the truckers 100%, but why should it be left to a small group to fight for everyone on fuel prices?
It's time the general public acted too.
Direct action will make Government listen and we need do no more than boycott the two main fuel suppliers, BP and Esso. If we all stopped using their filling stations and kept this up they would soon be losing so much money daily that they would either have to drop prices or force the Government do something.
If we don't start to stand up for our rights we only have ourselves to blame for what is to come – we have not felt the worst yet. Food prices will rise, as will heating and lighting. Come winter, poor people will have to choose between warmth or food.
Tony Wiggans, via email