WELL, at last someone in the Government is doing something for the poor motorist.

Yes, good old Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is putting the boot into cowboy clampers by bringing forward proposals to regulate the industry (Echo, March 24) – and about time, too.

But wait, haven’t they just put the price of petrol up?

Anyway getting back to the point. Why stop at the cowboys?

Why doesn’t someone raise a posse and round up all the bank robbers and outlaws who have been riding and milking the gravy train for too long – and let’s start with “Calamity Jane” herself.

Lawrence A McGowan, Sherburn Village, Durham.