Letter: Telly addicts

I AM A Liverpudlian on holiday, and can assure you that far from anti-black agitation in the city, if a white woman with a known criminal record half as sensational as Petrona Lashley's had been suggested for Lord Mayor, it would have been a non-starter ('A colour the city can't forgive', 14 August).

Liverpudlians are not racists but we do have to live down a television-promoted image that we are drossy drop-outs or druggy drifters.

What we need is not 'political correctness' but incorruptible politicians who can be found in all 'sections' of the 'community' if we looked for them.

Nelly Beard

Cromer, Norfolk