I am a teacher, who studied and trained for four years on a pittance and then started teaching on a basic salary of £18,000 a year.
It has taken me six working years – a total of 10 altogether – to reach the current basic wage of the truckers!
Surely, this is a sad indictment of our country when the facilitators of education do not receive the financial remuneration enjoyed by someone whose only training is learning to drive?
I understand that transporting fuel is a dangerous occupation – but then again, so is educating large groups of inner-city teenagers. The fuss that was made when the NUT held a one-day strike!
I feel this is like a kick in the teeth.
Jim O'Connor, via email

Take action to stop pavement injuries
A painful foot injury that I incurred while working on Strictly Come Dancing last year really brought home to me how difficult it can be to go about your everyday life when your mobility is limited.
My injuries were thankfully temporary, but for the millions of older people who have fallen on broken paving, their injuries are often permanent and life-threatening.
A shocking 2.5 million people aged over 65 in the UK have fallen to the ground due to damaged or uneven pavements.
As falls are a leading cause of death for over 75s, something must be done to improve pavements across the UK.
On June 24, Help the Aged is holding its fourth National Falls Awareness Day, when councils will be held to account for the poor paving in their areas. Since last year, the Charity has successfully lobbied a number of councils to improve reported broken pavements within a year. Help the Aged needs your readers' help.
A pavement postcard is available that can be used by members of the public to highlight an area of dangerous paving to the local street maintenance service and to the charity. I would urge your readers to order one now to send on National Falls Awareness Day.
They are available by emailing falls@helptheaged.org.uk or in Help the Aged shops.
Kate Garraway, via email

Make sure driving demand is valid
The widely-reported acquittal of Andrew Flintoff on speeding charges because the demand for information was sent too late, prompted me to ask Thames Valley Road Safety Partnership what instructions they had, and how they prevent invalid notices of intended prosecution.
Astonishingly, they had none. North Wales' Arrive Alive replied that they did, but their understanding of the 14-day deadline proved to be wrong.
It is wholly improper, and probably an offence of obtaining money by deception, to demand information and use it as evidence to penalise drivers.
I therefore urge anyone who receives such a demand for information to check it was issued and sent first class so that it should have arrived no later than within 14 days of the alleged offence.
Note, however, that this time limit applies only to the first demand, normally sent to the Registered Keeper, and that postal delays do not affect the legality.
Idris Francis, via email

I'll do as they do
My wife would like a new luxury kitchen for free. Will taxpayers have a whipround, or must the process be delayed until I become an MP?
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