THE MPs who criticised the Camelot directors' bonus payments should focus on a more important matter concerning the National Lottery. The midweek draw no doubt produced added profits, but it is at an unjust cost to the public.

By deliberately using the same numbers as the Saturday draw, it makes people who use their favourite numbers each week, and have done so from the beginning, either buy more tickets for Wednesday - which some people can't afford - or agonise in the hope that they will not come out in the midweek draw.

I would ask the Heritage Secretary to make Camelot change the midweek draw's numbers to 50-99 - as they should have been from the start, saving a lot of heartache.

T ANSBRO, Feniscliffe Drive, Blackburn.

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