SIR: I wish to nominate for "Rats" the person or persons who stole my elderly parents' bird table out of their back garden one recent Friday afternoon between 1-3 pm.

Do these thoughtless scum not realise that the elderly gain so much pleasure in just so simple a task as feeding the birds?

A very annoyed daughter

D Latham

Willand Drive, Bolton.

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