Letters In Brief

Sir: Prue Skinner (letter, 14 January) asks car makers to fit breathalyser kits. At the risk of extending the nanny state, fit your own. Take one Post-It Note. Write on it, "Don't drink and drive". Stick it to your steering wheel.

SHARON O'CONNOR

Beckenham, Kent

Sir: The difference between Conservatives and Labour is rapidly diminishing. A merger between Labour and the Liberal Democrats (Ken Kivingstone, 13 January) would bring nearer a time when the voter is forced to choose between salt and sodium chloride.

JOHN STAPLES

London N19

Sir: Why is turmoil in stock markets always illustrated by photographs of panicking, hand-waving traders, their ties undone, screaming into mobile phones? Where is the grace under pressure that is the hallmark of the professional? I don't expect to see firemen, plumbers or my sympathetic bank manager behaving in such a frenzied manner.

JOHN O'BYRNE

Dublin