SIR - I have a bone to pick with the Department for Work and Pensions about the otherwise excellent advert on benefit cheating (T&A, November 1).

It makes clear that it is a fictitious story, but sets it in Buttershaw, and suggests that there is enough local graffiti to keep the cheat busy for 100 hours community work.

As a former councillor for the area I know that it is no worse than many other parts of the district and better than a good few, and you would need to look very hard to find any graffiti.

It can do without this casual stereotyping.

Keith Thomson, Heights Lane, Bradford