Sir, - How many cars do you see with only one headlight working?

Their drivers have only 50pc of the possible illumination available; they are disregarding their own safety as well as the safety of drivers approaching them who reasonably could assume it is a motorcycle coming towards them.

I wonder if they have an MOT certificate, since the vehicle will surely fail this test. In the event of an accident, would their insurance company meet the claim, or refuse on the basis they had an unsafe vehicle but then, I am assuming they have cover.

We seem to be having a considerable amount of fog lately. There are those drivers who drive with headlights and fog lights on when there is no problem with fog.

It is very obvious they have not opened a Highway Code since passing their driving test. Sections 94, 201 and 211 state that fog lights should only be used when visibility is seriously reduced, i.e. less than 100metres (328ft). If you do, as well as dazzling other drivers, you are breaking the law! Is the fog in their heads?

M W GRAHAM

Ash Tree Road,

Bedale.

Is this fair?

Sir, - I took a photograph of a wildfowl shoot at the Nosterfield Nature Reserve on the morning of December 31, 2002. There were 14 guns.

It is a clear conflict of interest that Lower Ure Conservation Trust trustee, Christopher Bourne-Arton, exercises his shooting rights on the reserve. It is wrong that public money should fund the LUCT (a registered charity) so that it can attract birds for one of their trustees to shoot.

It is particularly irksome to local people that they have been denied the use of a footpath on the reserve for the next ten years under the pretext of avoiding disturbance to the birds whilst the trustees' cronies are allowed to rampage all over it with their guns and dogs.

V L LONSDALE

Nosterfield.

Stop moaning

Sir, - Recently, we have seen firemen, students and the Countryside Alliance prancing about the country.

Unlike the Jarrow marches, these people appear fit, healthy and very vocal.

Now after the expected increase in council tax, there will be a demonstration by around eight million people. The nation calls us pensioners.

We will not be honking car horns, or burning wood in oil drums and carrying stupid placards. We will not march in London, but will have a sit down in the centre of villages, towns and cities throughout the land. On the appointed day at noon, for just one minute, we will all wave our pension books!

You "young" workers stop making ridiculous demands. It's team work that makes the world go round. Enjoy life, stop moaning and all looking like well-fed "Olivers" carrying pig troughs.

GEORGE HAYES

Maison Dieu,

Richmond.