LETTER : The poverty of fashion victims

Tuesday 21 March 1995 00:02 GMT

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From Mrs Moira J. O'Brien

Sir: I read with sadness and a sense of helplessness your article "The poverty in Britain's backyard" (13 March).

Can you imagine my feelings when I turned to page 8 to be confronted with a prelude to a senseless competition to win a £10,000 Christian Lacroix outfit. Collect the coupons and then find out what to do. It is not only the poor who are gullible.

Yours faithfully,

MOIRA J. O'BRIEN

Morpeth,

Northumberland

13 March

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