I CERTAINLY sympathise with your reader whose son was beaten up in the school playground by several older boys.

The same thing happened to my son one lunchtime, and he had to be rushed to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary to have an X-ray of his skull, which they thought may have been fractured in the fight.

My son is now 40 years old, so this sort of thing happened years ago and obviously things have not improved at all.

Mrs Stephanie Morley

Heysham Road Morecambe