IN response to your editorial comment about the York Ascot meeting, I note the disabled are to be charged extortionate fees to attend and also access to the crematorium may be restricted.

Access to the crematorium must be free, and the disabled fees are an affront to human dignity. In 1760, this would have brought a cry of - "Turn and draw sir!" at first light on the Knavesmire. Forsooth, sirs, one day you too will grow old.

S C Ward,

Nicholas Street,

York.

Updated: 11:16 Thursday, April 21, 2005