HERE we go again -- more homes for the elderly to shut (LET, February 1), more consultation, more tears.

We know by now that it is no good us ranting and raving. Nobody is listening.

We seem to be able to support half the world apart from our own who need it most -- the very young or the very old.

Why don't they just shoot us all when we get to 65 and have done with it?

SAM SPENCE, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.