SCOOTER SCARE: Recently a disabled friend of ours was knocked down on Lincoln High Street by a mobility scooter.

Our friend is petite and uses a walking stick due to severe arthritis.

The mobility scooter hit her from behind, knocked her down and, with a short apology, the lady riding the scooter left.

An ambulance had to be called and our friend suffered a broken ankle, bruises to her leg and arm and cuts which required stitches.

As she is recently widowed and had no one at home to care for her, she was told she had to go in a home.

She remained in the home for two weeks and has been charged more than £800 for the time she was there.

I would call on all mobility scooter riders to be considerate to others when using their machines.

Some people are deaf and do not hear them coming; others are also disabled and unable to move quickly out of the way.

While having sympathy for anyone needing to use a mobility scooter and recognising how they help and improve disabled people's lives, those using them should be aware that m they can move quite fast and can do a lot of damage if you are hit by one.

Our friend has no way of being compensated for her injuries or the cost involved with her recovery as the mobility scooter rider did not give her name, nor stay until the ambulance arrived to make sure the person she knocked down was all right.

GINNY BURMAN Lincoln Healing Centre, c/o Friends Meeting House, Park Street, Lincoln.

ROCKY ROAD: Why, as taxpayers, are we paying for our roads to be re-surfaced the cheap and nasty way?

The stone chippings are worn off five minutes later, they damage your car and need re-doing time after time.

What happened to the old-fashioned way of tarmac and value for money?

Surely the council can't get away with doing this to our roads.

Not only that, Napier Street in Lincoln is like part of a racetrack that people speed around and now it's been made worse by the way it's been treated.

This is not acceptable – we pay our road tax and should get decent roads to drive on.

K. Royle, Lincoln.

CLUB CALL: Not the topic most people are talking about – but what is happening to the Con Club in Lincoln?

After many years of neglect we get grand plans. Then some fairly brutal work behind plastic sheeting. Then nothing.

Now the plastic has gone, leaving the Silver Street side suffering dreadfully with salts on the brickwork.

At least it looks as if the dreaded pigeons are being kept out. But why are the lamp-posts left cocooned with lagging?

P. RIVES, Lincoln.