HAMPSHIRE Trading Standards, while advising they will not be conducting their annual testing of electric blankets this year, have admitted the service to have been a popular one.

An information leaflet for users of these products is available if desired.

Its contents would appear to state the obvious, as Basil Fawlty might put it.

The myrmidons behind the decision to axe the scheme must be congratulating themselves.

At the stroke of a pen they will not only have saved money in the short term, but also found a creative solution to the problem of the ever increasing number of elderly in the population.

Z Jarenicz, Fyfield