Congratulations on the result of your front page story concerning the lack of security at Sidcup's former cinema's premises and the safety measures the company owning the property agreed to take. Among the measures is the installation of barbed wire on the top of fencing alongside the building. Similarly, it appears possible to use razor wire to protect other commercial premises. Is it not extraordinary, therefore, that individuals are not allowed to protect their own property and homes in similar fashion? What a strange world, where the vulnerable must remain unprotected but commercial properties are more highly valued.

Mrs A Ayris

Bellegrove Road

Welling

December 6, 2001 10:05