CORRESPONDENCE in today’s Echo (July 19) emphasises the obscene situation by which we are paying six and seven figure salaries to so-called celebrities and yet a young woman who needs a lifesaving operation has to raise the money herself.
Peter Elliott, Eaglescliffe
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