The choice of Jo Brand to present the salt petition to the Prime Minister’s office is apt (Shropshire Star, April 16).

Compulsory sex education in primary schools is completely wrong and immoral.

More than 90 per cent of residential roads in Telford & Wrekin have received little or no maintenance since they were laid. Because of this many now show their base through the surface but fail to meet the highways criteria for patching.

We hear a lot about the £150 million pound project to produce a new riverside centre. This will create ‘X’ number of jobs for the town. I say ‘great’, having myself spent a while unemployed.

The discharge of elderly and vulnerable patients during the hours of darkness is not a recent innovation; regrettably this has been all too common in many ‘hot and heavy’ trusts for some time, as the pursuit of budget driven targets take precedence over common sense and patient care.

I have never understood why it was thought necessary to have a first and second class postal system, when to deliver letters and parcels directly to customers must be cheaper than sorting and storing them.

Many believe we are suffering a drought. This has been attributed to manmade global warming and, last week, by a councillor, to the concrete platforms on which windmills stand.

In the past two weeks, you have printed letters by Paul Yeulett claiming that politicians do not have the right to change the definition of marriage using an argument drawn entirely from the myth of Genesis.

In recent days several television advertisements have appeared, aimed at not smoking in front of children.

A little fun at our EU friends expense . . .  My apologies to Brussels in advance!

Dear Rea Valley residents and farmers, I am so disappointed you aren’t proud of a step forward in essential green energy production for us and our supporting planet.

After reading about the pensioner who was glad he cut fence that split Market Drayton (Shropshire Star, April 4) I just about fell off my chair.