MALCOLM Wicks should resign now! His derogatory remarks about the staff at the DWP centre at Monks Cross was unhelpful and shabby - a disgrace.

He should apologise in public now and be a bit more sympathetic. A lot of them had to relocate and get a mortgage.

Andrew Fair,

Woodland Way,

Huntington, York.

Updated: 10:51 Tuesday, October 26, 2004