Most industrialised countries have some legal controls on how much lenders can charge, but ever since the 48% limit of the old Moneylenders Act was abolished in 1974, Britain has become a wild west paradise for high-cost lenders and legal loan sharks (Unthinkable?, 10 March). Sadly, those with least pay most for credit. In the US the clamour for proper regulation of credit costs followed outrage about how servicewomen and men were being ripped off by the very same payday lenders who are making a killing here. Let's get behind the End Legal Loan Sharks campaign to end this disgrace.
Alan Thornton
Church Action on Poverty
• Interesting that, besides the highly respected Lord Hunt as chair, the transition process from the Press Complaints Commission to its successor will be managed by two people linked to the Conservative party and a former Guardian employee (Report, 9 March). This may reflect the political complexion of the press but is hardly calculated to inspire confidence across the political spectrum.
Jeremy Beecham
Lab, House of Lords
• The UK's continuing poor record on ovarian cancer (A hidden cancer, G2, 12 March) is very disappointing. I took part in a 10-year trial which found screening feasible, but a full report isn't expected until 2015 and it seems decisions are to be put off till then. The leisurely timetable seems quite inexplicable.
Valerie Gibbs
Alfreton, Derbyshire
• Terence Hall's fjordside fry-up (Letters, 10 March) sounds delicious. Sadly, on opening the bonnets of their sleek automobiles most drivers today can't tell their exhaust manifold from their cylinder head gasket.
Angus I MacIntosh
Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
• Gary Trudeau banned again! (Doonesbury abortion cartoon dropped by US newspapers, 12 March). As ever, he only has himself to blame. He encourages people to think rather than react. That is not something that can be tolerated in a modern democracy.
Dave Juson
Southampton