Bank details posted by mistake
After taking out a mobile phone contract with Orange, I automatically assumed that my details would be safe and not put into the wrong hands.
I received my direct debit confirmation yesterday, listing my bank account details and asking me to ensure that all of the details were correct.
What I did not expect to receive was another letter that had been wrongly put into my envelope containing a gentleman's name, address... and bank details.
This is the very thing everyone works so hard to try and protect these days!
Luckily for this person I am law abiding and do not have any interest in making money by passing these details on.
But will the next person this happens to be as lucky? Just how safe are our personal details?
Claire, Buckshaw Village, via email (full name and address supplied)

Good faith after prang betrayed
I am a student at college and recently celebrated passing my driving test.
One day last week, I was driving out of the Tesco car park in Leyland, when someone decided to ram into my car.
This smartly dressed woman admitted liability and I trusted her when she said she would ring me to make arrangements for the damages to be repaired.
Upon receiving no phone call, I decided to make contact myself - not once, not twice, but three times.
To date my calls to her office have still not been returned.
Society is always pointing the finger at young people for not accepting responsibilities. How about this mature person faces up to her liability? She must have a lifetime supply of Horlicks to help her sleep at night!
My car is not a Porsche but it is my pride and joy, and all I want is justice. The irony of this story is that I understand this person to be a solicitor.
Name and address supplied

Tory opposition to ID cards too late
Conservative calls to scrap ID cards are welcome (LEP, Oct 8). But talk about shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted! The Conservatives are a shambles on this issue.
The Government's planned introduction of ID cards and biometric passports would not be possible had the Conservatives not initially supported them.
In contrast, the Liberal Democrats have consistently opposed their introduction. They are expensive and ineffective. I would follow the lead of Nick Clegg by refusing to provide my details to the ID card database.
The Government's recent introduction of ID cards for foreign nationals is the thin end of the wedge. When voting adults are forced to carry ID cards, this scheme will prove to be a form of laminated poll tax.
The Liberal Democrats would scrap ID cards and put more police on the streets and equip them to combat crime more effectively.
We are being left to provide effective opposition to this further erosion of our civil liberties.
Mark Jewell, Prospective LibDem Parliamentary Candidate for Preston

Reject Bill to make abortions easier
Are readers aware that the report stage of the Human Fertilisation Bill legalising animal/ human cloning and further human embryo abuse is due to take place?
Amendments tabled before the Parliamentary recess include: Reducing medical scrutiny of abortion from two doctors to one.
Allowing nurses and midwives to carry out abortions.
Extending locations where abortions can take place to include doctors' surgeries, local health centres and school children's sickrooms.
Up to two years prison for any pro-life counselling group which "misleads" expectant mothers.
It is amazing that a parliamentary bill originally passed to prevent so called illegal 'back street' abortions, has escalated into something much more threatening to our once highly-regarded society.
These anti-life proposals require those of us who are sufficiently outraged, to write to our MPs and ensure that this HFE Bill, together with the proposed amendments, are rejected as alien to this country's culture and values.
John Tilley, The Oaks, Chorley

Ease traffic with a green filter arrow
Your story about traffic congestion due to the roadworks at Ringway in Preston centre, has touched a raw nerve.
A lot of traffic backs up on Lune Street at peak hours, waiting to get on to Fishergate.
This would be helped if there was a green filter arrow from Fishergate on to Chapel Street.
It seems odd that the highways authorities haven't realised that such a small measure would have such a huge benefit.
Alan Evans, via email

Fond memories of Warehouse club
With regard to all the comments about Preston's Warehouse nightclub being under threat, I remember my twin daughters, Kate and Louise, used to work there in the late Seventies for a very nice couple who owned the club.
When my daughters' 21st birthday was due, they offered them the whole club free for the night. I was at the party with several more members of my family, and we thoroughly enjoyed our evening.
It was a fun club, reasonably priced and full of well-balanced young people - none of the binge drinking we hear so much of these days.
Richard Holmes, Walmer Bridge, via email

Did you find camera lost on night out?
My best friend lost her digital camera on Saturday night (October 11), either in or outside the Warehouse nightclub, off Church Street.
It contains a huge number of treasured, never-to-be-replaced photographs and she is praying that it was found by a good-natured person who plans to do the right thing.
It's a Sony, coloured black and silver, and is about a year old.
If anyone has it, or knows of its discovery, could they please contact me on 07849 195820.
My friend is devastated and I'm just trying to help.
Emma Everingham, via email

RPH stroke unit worked wonders
Once again I find myself thanking the doctors and nurses of the Royal Preston Hospital.
Eight-and-a-half weeks ago my lovely husband suffered a serious stroke and was very poorly.
He was moved to the new stroke unit with specialist staff.
Ward 21 became his home for several weeks and during this time everyone rallied round with 24-hour care.
The change in him was amazing.
If I had gold medals to hand out, everyone involved in his care would be wearing them.
Names fail me, but you all know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Maria Hughes, Market Place, Longridge

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