Aside from an admission that the expensive integration centres such as the one now running in Leeds are not up to the job, this could in fact increase the risk of ID fraud because more companies and institutions will be holding personal details about us.

It is now proven by security experts that biometric technology is not the magic solution to ID fraud the Government tells us it is. It's

now time for the Brown government to learn from its election defeat and axe the failing ID cards scheme.

James Elsdon-Baker, Yorkshire NO2ID Coordinator, Otley

Raining dust

Motorists having cleaned their cars on Saturday may be excused for thinking that their cars became unusually dirty again on Sunday after a fall of thundery rain.

Rain drops require a nucleus to form and this nucleus is often in the form of salt particles carried aloft over large oceans such as the Pacific and Atlantic. However, on rare occasions Sahara desert dust which is carried by high-level winds, can form the basis of this nucleus and this is what produced the dust deposits left after the rain drops had evaporated off everyone's cars.

Rob Brooks, Farsley, Leeds

Inside out

REGARDING the letter from Nicola Turner (May 6). My mother was on a nebulizer but in her appearance she looked very well. The doctor said you can have a rosy apple that looks good to eat but it could be bad inside and that is what your inside is. People from the outside can be very cruel as I have found out regarding parking. So Nicola, keep your head up high.

L R Rogers, Wakefield

Backing Princes

DOESN'T E Clarkson think the Princes William and Harry had enough in their young lives?

No one is perfect even in the Army. I have two boys, they are men now, and although I have been ill for many years, I was always behind them when needed but William and Harry don't have their mother, who was beautiful and caring and loved them.

BETTY H FINCH, Moortown