SIR – With regard to the £3.50 weekly charge for the ‘Safe & Sound’ alarm pendants soon to be investigated. I can well understand the need for a charge of some kind but feel that over £152 a year is exorbitant.

Has someone in the department involved made an error I wonder?

I feel £3.50 or even £4 a month would cover the service adequately. I also feel that we ‘oldies’ are being penalised simply because of our age.

Catherine R Thomas, Grovelands, Bradford