IN the recent Budget old Ironsides namely Gordon Brown the Chancellor, gave in to pensioners' pleas for relief from the dreaded unfair community charge's ever spiralling costs.

He gave some pensioners the princely sum of £100, but only for those over 70. Where is the fairness in that?

What is sauce for the goose, should be sauce for the gander. Why deny the other half who are under 70? Shouldn't they have a share in it? Some of them are just as impoverished.

Governments are always giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

They'll do anything under pressure except give all pensioners a decent pension, to come into line with other countries who do.

So some on you politicians, have a heart and help those in their 60s - or are we a forgotten species?

BRIAN WATSON, Rosehill Road, Burnley.