I AGREE with what "Concerned Mature Citizen" said (Your Letters, May 31). Asylum-seekers are well looked after, but not just in Bury.

It is our pensioners in Britain who are just being thrown to one side, especially those who live in homes for the elderly, many of which are being closed.

Even illegal immigrants get handouts in this country when they smuggle themselves in.

I wrote to David Blunkett suggesting that large signs be put up where these people board the trains telling them that if they do manage to get through to Britain there will be no housing, no money, no food and no handouts. Maybe that would make them think long and hard. It is time the Government put their foot down. Maybe then our pensioners would get a better deal.

BURY PENSIONER