I hope all those who criticised and condemned the fire service so recently are ashamed of themselves after the death of firefighter Bob Miller at a Leicester factory fire.

He leaves a wife, two children and shattered work colleagues.

Mr Miller paid the ultimate price for us, the public, without a second thought for his own safety - all of this for £21,500 a year. What a sad government and country this is.

-A Simms, The Green, Southwick