When I get the Sunday paper, I groan. There’s a whole wadge of extra bits I don’t want.

There’s a magazine, and a Food Monthly and supplement about the economic situation in Asia Minor, a facsimile of a paper printed at the time of the Boer War, a money supplement, a cookery supplement and a review of all the films that will never come round here. Everything you don’t want to know about the Stock Exchange.

All I want is the newspaper. All the rest goes directly into the bin and then into a blue sack which I have to lug downstairs at the end of the week. How many rain forests are pillaged every Sunday? And the cost of all this wastage is colossal. £1.80. But they say, these newspaper people, that the supplements and magazines are given free with the paper. That the cost is covered by advertising. This means that they are charging you £1.80 for the paper, which is over twice as much as they charge all the week. I don’t know if my grandmother ever sucked eggs, but she’d better start.

Can I start a newspaper only campaign. Just plonk down a quid, and leave all the extra bits on the counter, I don’t want to lug it home and then lug it downstairs again. I’m getting a newspaper. Not a work out.

Allen Saddler