9 JUNE 2007, Page 17

Draining the meters

Sir: Please tell Theodore Dalrymple (Global warning, 2 June) that councils could easily provide car-park meters that give change. The trouble is each machine would need a float of £500 in small change, which would be routinely lifted at night by drug addicts to feed their habit.

Dominic Low Barney, Fakenham, Norfolk