A RECENT survey stated that one in five British adults cannot read and these these unfortunates would not be able to find a plumber in the yellow pages.
What they failed to mention was the fact that the other 80 per cent of us have been having the same problem for years.
G WHEATMAN, Whalley New Road, Blackburn.
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