Unable to pay for PNE tickets
After reading the LEP article on North End season tickets, I feel one major point needs to be made. The club is making it difficult to get disabled tickets.
They are stopping people with lower rates of Disability Living Allowance from renewing their disabled ticket for next season, unless they pay full adult prices.
Now you have to be in receipt of middle or higher rates to be eligible. As a consequence, I will be unable to support PNE next season.
Due to my lack of co-ordination and clumsiness, plus visual perception problems, I am slower at watching football and therefore miss certain passages of play. Why should I pay full price for a game I am struggling to watch?
In addition my disabled seat provides easy access to the stadium which is important when you find it difficult to negotiate crowds and judge distances.
The board and staff of Preston North End need disability awareness training, especially in hidden disabilities.
Robert Hopkins, Preston, via email

Not fair to make all students pay more
I'd like to draw your attention to the part of your season tickets article where it says: "The worst hit will be some senior citizens and adults in premium seats on both sides of the ground."
The worst hit will actually be students who will see prices rise by around 50% as the club decides not to offer concessions to students any longer.
I would be very interested to hear a statement from the club explaining why they no longer value the support of students. How can it be justified?
Derek Shaw would probably mention about the 16-20 age group category but according to Mintel, more than 50% of higher education students are 21 or over.
A club trying to attract more fans in a city with one of the largest student populations anywhere in the UK proves that they either don't have a clue or simply don't care.
Name and address supplied

Rules on postal vote must be tightened
I disagree with large-scale postal voting, which has led to problems in the past. Remember the former Birmingham councillors who were jailed for voting irregularities?
It has also been reported that similar things have been happening across England in the past few weeks in the run-up to today's elections.
Apparently it is not just the local elections that are in danger of being tainted. A person hoping to become an MP at the next general election is being investigated after 27 voters were found to be registered at his home address.
There are also suspicions that polls across the West Midlands are being rigged after an astonishing surge in the number of people applying for postal votes. Officials in Walsall say 5,000 new postal voters will have been registered there, up 30% on the figure this time last year. Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Dudley have each recorded an extra 2,000 postal voters.
The judge who sentenced the six Birmingham councillors three years ago and said their electoral fraud would "disgrace a banana republic" now warns that "the opportunities for easy and effective electoral fraud remain substantially as they were in April 2005".
If people do not make a stand on this issue, we will end up with a similar situation to that in Zimbabwe and other countries.
Mrs I Jordan, Preston (full address supplied)

College teachers also held pay strike
Were you aware that the UCU (the University and College Union) was also on strike last Thursday, as well as the NUT?
Preston College, which provides a wide range of vocational and academic courses, had a large number of UCU members taking part.
As a further education college we don't figure very highly on the national political agenda but we are as hard-working and as dedicated as any other branch of teaching.
Yet we earn less, on average, than primary teachers, high school teachers and university lecturers.
I personally earned less than all other public sector workers last year (i.e. police officers, postal workers, refuse collectors etc.)
Is this fair?
I would urge the public to support us nationally as well as locally.
Preston College has not even honoured national agreements in the least well-paid sector of education.
We have been called the forgotten sector of teaching.
Alistair Dunk, via email

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