SIR – In my young, free and single days, I used to holiday in Benidorm in Spain twice a year with a half-dozen other girlfriends.

During the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the aeroplane we were on was always full of holidaying miners. We had a super time with them and they certainly knew how to let their hair down!

They weren’t as badly off as people were lead to believe or portrayed in the press.

Mary Moorhouse, High Street, Wibsey, Bradford