We live in an age of rapid communications or do we? It's fax this, fax that and fax the other. The number of word processors in operation seem to proliferate like rabbits day by day!

So why is it that North Yorkshire County Council has (to date) has failed to reply to two very polite letters I wrote about an aspect of passenger safety which concerns some elderly people who use public transport on the bus routes near my home? Public transport is recommended by John Prescott, our Deputy Prime Minister.

Mr Prescott, don't try to tell me there is an acute shortage of skilled personnel to operate those "legions of word processors", I might just might believe it!

Mrs Ida Mary Goodrick,

Woodlands Avenue,

Tadcaster.

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