SIR - It is well known certain newspapers are keen to give prominence to ‘stories’ featuring so- called benefit ‘scroungers.’ These papers put a lot of effort into locating such people.

This is because the owners and editors of these newspapers have a particular political mindset.

Their objectives are to encourage the belief that people on benefits are generally undeserving and to undermine the welfare system.

Of course, benefit fraud is wrong and should be dealt with appropriately by the authorities but the vast majority of claimants are in genuine need.

However, the worst criminals are those enormously rich corporations and individuals deploying their wealth to avoid paying their legally fair share to the public purse which amounts in total to many billions.

Despite recent claims the Government takes this seriously, huge tax avoidance continues unabated.

In truth, total benefit fraud accounts for a very small percentage of public money lost to the Treasury and certainly when compared to the massively, greater amounts lost to tax avoidance by big business.

But for very good reasons, THESE stories rarely make the inside pages, never mind the front page of such newspapers.

David Hornsby, West Avenue, Wrose