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SIR – Allister Heath (“Post Office scandal has exposed the elite’s contempt for Middle England”, Comment, January 11) nails what the majority think about the overpaid, unaccountable “corporate-bureaucratic class”. You see its actions everywhere. The same is true of the current political class. Look at Sir Keir Starmer. He was director of public prosecutions while sub-postmasters were being taken to court. It seems incredible that he did not know about these prosecutions when in charge (report, J

SIR – I can think of nothing in my 67 years that makes me more ashamed to be British than the scandalous behaviour of the Post Office in the Horizon fiasco (Letters, January 8). What makes me most ashamed is that it has taken a television dramatisation, ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, to spur our self-satisfied and self-protecting establishment into taking action. Nigel Cowan Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

PLANS to move ahead with the second phase of Llandrindod Wells’ active travel scheme to neighbouring Howey have been labelled “irresponsible”…

Another local claimed that, due to the road narrowing during an earlier phase of the project, one driver “has lost three wing mirrors already”

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