Many humans (including Northampton's) seem to spend their time going to work in jobs they hate so they can buy rubbish they don't need.

Sometimes they even buy money (they call it borrowing). They then have to pay back the money they have borrowed with even more money.

To accomplish this, they often will do extra hours at the job they hate.

Many humans are well aware that car pollution is damaging their planet, and yet while they could do their bit by cycling (which is of course good for their heath, their wallet and their environment) they continue to drive everywhere.

If visiting Northampton, Commander, may I recommend that during the hours of 8am-9am and 5pm and 6pm you stay away from the following: Moulton Park, town centre, Brackmills, Kingsley Road, Mill Lane, Wellingborough Road and Kettering Road.

Also avoid all the schools around 3-3.30pm. This time is designated the "mum run", a period of time where parents stress themselves out trying to fight their way out of school car parks.

The overuse of car horns/tightly gripped steering wheels seems to be mandatory.

Further reports to follow.

Message ends.

PS: For the love of all that's holy, beam me up, I want to come home.
Garry Marlowe (Agent 37, Northampton Division), West Ridge, St David's, Northampton

We can't afford to help others
WHILE there is a lot of truth in what David Haddon says (Chronicle & Echo, September 1) and immigrants do indeed enrich our society, Mr Haddon is missing the point of Keith Jackson's letter.

Britain in comparison with area size is the most populated country on Earth and just can't afford to carry on its unrestricted policy of accepting all and sundry into this country.

Keith Jackson is not a racist and neither am I.

But when our country has to measure costs against people's lives and can't afford to spend any money, and is now in a depression because of mismanagement, it's time we had a period of a few years of no more immigration.

We need a time of recovery for the country and to put our own house in order.

How can we tell a cancer patient they can't have a life-saving drug because of costs, when we let in immigrants with TB, HIV and other infections at great cost to our health service?

How can we provide a house and money to spend for an immigrant who should have been deported after serving a sentence for murdering a headmaster, when our own people are having their houses repossessed because they're struggling to live?

It's not the immigrants' fault.

Like everybody else, they're looking for a better life.

It's the Government's for allowing it in the first place.

When we get to the stage where all these things are put right then perhaps we can, in David Haddon's words, "help those in a worse situation than we are".
John Pendleton, Lower Thrift Street, Northampton

Women's cricket a joy to watch
I WAS extremely disappointed to read in the Chronicle & Echo about the 20/20 cricket matches played between England and South Africa Women at the County Ground last week.

Having attended two of the three games, the enthusiasm and spirit shown by both teams was a joy to watch. The standard of fielding was good, particularly the brilliant catch.

The batting of Charlotte Edwards prompted one member to ask me for her phone number on Bank Holiday Monday when the County were crumbling once again.

Women's cricket can never be directly compared to men's, nor incidentally, can women's tennis, but, viewed in the right spirit, it is equally entertaining.

Finally, the lack of spectators was disappointing but this will not be encouraged by such prejudiced reporting.
Mary Kew, Life Member, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

Roses disappoint
LIKE Liz Cox, I am also concerned about Abington Park rose garden.

I've written about it before.

Way back in the spring I gave six new rose bushes. My daughter from Shropshire took me to see the rose garden while staying with me and although some work had been done, I was disappointed to see it wasn't completed.
Mrs P Frost, Bugbrooke Road, Kislingbury