Penalty points and powerful cars

adam, - Your main front page report last Friday was headlined: "23,000 drivers have received penalty points".

adam, - Your main front page report last Friday was headlined: "23,000 drivers have received penalty points".

Directly below the report was a colour advertisement for the Alfa Romeo 156: "165 bhp. . .more power exactly where you need it. . .Top Speed 137 m.p.h. . . .0-62 m.p.h. in 8.2 seconds".

This is about as tactful as putting a full colour drink ad under an article about Mr McDowell's valiant attempts to curb excess drinking. - Yours, etc.,

KENNETH TOWNSEND, Church Lane, Greystones, Co.Wicklow.