What an irony – Labour's worst leader hoping some Olympic gold dust from our fantastic winners would rub off on him.

If our Prime Minister is so keen to be seen associating with British heroes, why is he nowhere to be seen when our brave troops who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this nation arrive home at RAF airfields from Iraq and Afghanistan in flag-draped coffins? Cynical, self-serving and as genuine as a £9 note would be a perfect description of the current occupant of Number 10 Downing Street.

M NICHOLSON, Barwick, Leeds

Breast hypocrisy

TO complain about the natural and healthy practice of breast feeding in public places is the ultimate hypocrisy in this breast-obsessed climate.

Men drool over exposed breasts in the media, women pay thousands to augment theirs for vanity and half the female population show them off in public anyway – so let's not get silly about this issue and please put the babies needs first.

Surely it is not as offensive as seeing parents smoking near their children, speaking nastily and rudely to them, or stuffing bottles of sugary drinks into their mouths?

BRENDA BRIAR, Stoneleigh Way, Leeds

Accent on jobs

HAVING just returned from a two-week holiday in Ireland, not once did I hear anyone with an English accent on their radio or television.

Back in England I see more and more people with Irish accents on our screens, mainly as news readers or economic correspondents.

Aren't there any suitable people who could be recruited from our marvellous London School of Economics or other universities, who are desperate for a job?

MR T L CAMPBELL, Rycroft Avenue, Swinnow, Leeds

Hang to rights

E CLARKSON is right, murderers and paedophiles have no rights as they are scum and should be hanged. Then again hanging is too quick for them.

What annoys me is before they got rid of hanging murders were nowhere near on the same scale as today. They give our nation a bad name, they should be kicked out of the country.

M Ward, York