LETTER:Losing sleepers

The Rt Rev Ian Harland

Sir: It is very bad news for Carlisle and for Cumbria that sleeper services are to be made virtually inaccessible from May. (What is the point of a sleeper if one has to get on or off in the small hours of the morning?)

This is just the latest example of discrimination against areas of small population a long way from London. It may be good for business: it is bad for participation, representation and democracy.

Yours sincerely,

IAN HARLAND

Dalston, Carlisle

16 March