I THINK it’s a disgrace that nurses are only receiving a one per cent pay increase, and some of them are not receiving any increase at all.

Medical students have to pay £63,000 in tuition fees and seven years’ rent, food, books and utility bills.

After three years, they go into hospitals to work unpaid from 9am-4.30pm and they have to pay for their own transport and meals.

Some MPs are claiming around £100,000 in expenses every year – and how many have four or five highly-paid, part-time jobs on the side? I don’t see any teachers, doctors, nurses or many other jobs where people would be able to carry out a number of jobs on the side. Could that be the reason this country is in such a state because MPs have not been concentrating on the job of being an MP?

I hear that this Government is going to pay nurses different pay for working in different areas of this country. May I suggest it tries out this idea on MPs first?

Some MPs may end up paying back money to the people they represent for doing nothing.

G Hall, Crook.