WHAT a lovely change – a story of 100 per cent success, joy and goodness. All 33 miners are safely rescued from a mine in the Chilean desert.

Everyone connected with this enthralling event is to be heartily congratulated; the very brave miners, the superb engineers on the surface, the president of Chile, all the families and loved ones at “Camp Hope”, the Catholic Church, the well-behaved journalists and the entire Chilean nation for setting such a wonderful example to the rest of the world.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.