WHAT a refreshing change to read Mark Woodhouse's illuminating story, "Birthday grief of a junkie's brave mum" (LET, May 5).

Along comes a "brave mum" in the shape of Susan Beach, who, in this "I'm all-right-jack" world in which very few people care over the fate of homeless young people, tending to sweep them under the carpet as an embarrassment to society, acts like a female Robin Hood and gives her all to the homeless, poor and afflicted.

Looking down on earth, her late son, Ian, would be very proud of his mum.

EVAN WILLIAMS, Carr Meadow, Clayton-le-Woods, Preston.

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