I HAVE been inundated with calls: “Dear customer....”, “Our database shows ........” and other irritating, unwanted and certainly unsolicited calls during recent months and I guess that I am not alone in my complaint. Years ago, registration with Telephone Preference Services helped to minimise the influx of such calls, but now that most are recorded phone messages, the buck has been passed to the Information Commissioner’s office, though my contact with them appears to have had no effect.

I know that many phone users have the caller identity feature installed, but it doesn’t stop the calls from coming in and, if you ignore them, those phones with answer phone facilities still record the messages.

We seem to be at the mercy of these invaders and it’s time that some legal means could be enacted to neuter them. We don’t all qualify for free services or want solar panels and I, for one, am heartily sick of being contacted in this manner, against my will. Remarkably, I have seen little adverse comment about these practices in the press.

Peter Bramah Cambourne Drive Ladybridge