I WOULD like to remind John Blunt (LET, November 12), who seems to cringe when a person signs a free prescription in his local chemists, that if the revenues from North Sea oil, over the last 12 years, had been put into our health and education services, instead of relieving taxation for the 'fat cats,' we would not have these problems of funding today.
Celebrities in sport and entertainment, who seem to make vast sums of money so easily, should be made more responsible in taxation.
ERIC TURNER, Rolleston Road, Blackburn.
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