THE Government has axed the Royal Navy’s harrier jump jets, leaving the fleet without fixed wing aircraft and vulnerable to air attacks.

This is after axing the still seaworthy HMS Ark Royal, the Royal Navy’s sole aircraft carrier.

Now in The Northern Echo (Dec 15) the Government is cutting back spending in our forensic science crime laboratories.

Incredibly, any DNA testing will have to be sent overseas, possibly to America.

Please think again – you are supposed to be the “British”

Government.

Roland Bramham, Richmond.