THE front page was a sorry sight (Echo, Mar 10) with huge amounts of household furniture and rubbish dumped in a country lane by a firm called Steptoe & Son from Newton Aycliffe. People who do things like this should have their vehicles confiscated and I think the law is being changed to allow this to happen.

I am always suspicious of people with a truck who say they will dispose of a fridge, freezer, etc for a fiver and I wonder if the motor is weighed into a scrapyard and the useless and valueless plastic is flytipped anywhere and everywhere.

My wife and I used to holiday on Corfu and we did quite a lot of walking on this beautiful Greek island. One evening, we were walking to a very unspoiled Greek village called Catagoruna above the village of Agio Gordious where we were staying and we came to a superb view across a valley. We stopped to admire it and there, in the bottom of a ravine with a stream running through it, was what seemed like the local rubbish dump. Kitchen units and bits of bathrooms just thrown over the edge into the hinterland. Paradise is lost.

Malcolm Rolling, Carrville, Durham.