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Features: Letters

• Troubled families

  WELL done to CT Riley (HAS, June 19) you hit the nail on the head regarding troubled families. read more

• Super rich

  WHILE David Cameron is absolutely correct to castigate Jimmy Carr for the comedian’s participation in the K2 tax avoidance scheme, which allows the super-rich to avoid paying an estimated £4bn a year into our economy, his selective criticism of the scheme’s participants is also morally wrong. read more

• Olympics

  THE BBC’s coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant on the Thames was a disaster, as many papers and knowledgeable people reported, let’s hope the BBC use suitably qualified people to commentate on the Olympics. read more

• Blameless

  ALL that is missing from the comments of the Bishop Auckland MP Helen Goodman is “not me guv’nor” regarding her claims that both she and Labour are mere bystanders regarding the local job situation (Echo, June 19). read more

• Local government

  ALTHOUGH official figures have shown a fall in UK unemployment of 51,000 in the three months to April 2012, this will not be a comfort for people in the North-East. read more

• Zombies: Dawn of the Dead

  BRITAIN has descended into panic. Towns and cities are in tatters and it’s time to start your own survival plan. read more

• Education reform

  I APPLAUD Michael Gove’s proposal for the reintroduction of O Levels (Echo, June 22). read more

• Nazi insult

  IN Northallerton recently, I saw men and boys walking around the town in German uniforms. I ask myself why? read more

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