I hope they and others such as the red squirrel can once again, with proper management, co-exist with us in areas where they were once common.STEPHEN MATTINSON Steyning, West Sussex Jewish PM Sir:Your headline “Half of voters unwilling to accept a Jewish PM” (23 January) is either deliberate distortion or inability to interpret simple statistics. PCTs will have a legal responsibility to make sure patients are well cared for out of hours and continue to be offered safe, fast and convenient care, delivered to nationally set quality standards.We value greatly the contribution that GPs make and the high quality service they provide. From April 2004, GPs can choose to hand over responsibility for out-of-hours care of their patients to their local primary care trust. It is wrong to suggest that most patients will not be able to see a GP outside of office hours when the new GP contracts are introduced.Patients will continue to have access to a GP if their condition requires the attention of a doctor. He looked uncommonly like a master plumber come to present his bill. The First Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as the embodiment of fraudulent laziness and incompetency.” – from The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad, 1907.JENNI WOOD Master Plumber Canterbury, Kent WMD mysteries Sir: Blair’s strategy of blank denial over WMD, while understandable, damages our national security, in that it prevents investigation into why our intelligence services believed so wrongly, for so long, that Saddam did indeed have WMD.We need to ask questions, to learn lessons. The backlash is an uncertain level of quality and value, sustained by public perception and titillating “rogue” TV.

I look forward to a series called Rogue Customers.Does the plumbing industry appear to be getting worse? What about this – “The fellow was unexpectedly vulgar, heavy and impudently unintelligent. The plumbing industry has quite a few professional associations and three bodies with which plumbers or plumbing companies can and do register (“governing bodies” to quote the article) But only one of these, Corgi for gas, is mandatory. Maxis are exercising control by enforcing the rules all players agree to abide by when they sign up. If his desire was purely to clean up the game then he should have used the in-game reporting tools, as every player can.

He claims to be trying to “expose the bad side” to allow EA to tidy up the game – but is only encouraging a small minority by giving them a mouthpiece.ANDREW DOWN London SW9 ‘Rogue’ plumbers Sir: The plumbing industry, with its front-line responsibility for water, waste and fuel, is indeed fascinating, feared and undervalued (Terence Blacker, 23 January).Many people resent paying tradespeople properly at all and earnings of £70,000 a year are far from the norm Half of that would be excellent. Anyone playing the game can testify that this is not how the game is played by over 99 per cent of players. In any online environment, there is always a tiny minority who abuse things, and I found your correspondent’s tarring of us all with the same brush offensive.No player can ever be “forced” to be involved anything they do not want. There are various parental controls and report facilities, allowing users to “police” their own game; anything they encounter that is unsavoury, immoral or illegal can be investigated. There are many “communities within communities”, and although some choose to roleplay Mafia, or another “seedier” aspect of life, they generally keep within their own circles and leave other players to their own game.Professor Ludlow’s removal from the game was due to repeated breaking of the rules through links to his unofficial cyber-gutter newspaper. Simply leave a few barriers and some earth-moving equipment around and massive savings can be made which can be directed to more useful projects such as improving public transport.JOHN DAVIES Amersham, Buckinghamshire Cyber-citizens Sir: Having played The Sims Online since February 2003, I feel that the article “Blood on the virtual carpet” (16 January) badly misrepresented “virtual” reality.

We are all the losers as transport policy is left drifting.P A READ Eastbourne, East SussexSir: A vast sum of money is to be spent shortly on widening the M25 west of London. A lot of disruption will be caused during the work so traffic will be warned away from the area. If the traffic is sufficiently reduced there will then be no need actually to do the widening. The Government, for its part, just tries to avoid the issue and so does almost nothing to defend its policies.As a result it is now impossible to conduct any rational or constructive public debate about solutions to Britain’s serious transport problems. Bereft of political vision, they are reduced to indiscriminate criticism of every policy of the Government, even when those policies were once the Conservatives’ own.