THE controversial issue of "road rage" is back on the national agenda.

Fed with the oxygen of publicity, lack of self-discipline has suddenly acquired a fashionable label and unchanneled aggression has become high-profile and vaguely "acceptable".

This is a "Catch 22" situation, of course. It is vital to report the incidents, but would road rage have achieved this strange new status if they weren't?

MR B WOOD, Preston New Road, Blackburn.

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