• ON the fall of the House of Fraser – most of their soon-to-be-closed stores are situated in pedestrianised streets with no parking.

I haven’t shopped in my local department store in over 25 years due to the impossibility of getting my car within several hundred yards of the front door. I prefer out-of-town malls with free and convenient parking.

It must be nice for the anti-car lobby to smugly walk and cycle past the shuttered shops of our high streets the death of which are due to their blinkered efforts.

JOHN DOUGLAS
Edinburgh