Letter: A Budget switchoff

Sir: Gordon Brown offers enterprise and fairness in his Pre-Budget Statement, and makes great play of free television licences for the over- 75s. I am 79 but I do not have television, nor do I want this form of entertainment. I prefer to buy The Independent at an annual cost of approximately pounds 150. Will Mr Brown give me the pounds 101 in lieu of a television licence? If not, where does the fairness come in?

C MELDON

Bexhill-on-Sea,

East Sussex