Your newspaper runs a fair bit of coverage on squatting locally.

One hate figure among some squatters is Conservative MP for Hove, Mike Weatherley, who was partly responsible for making squatting on residential property illegal in 2012.

But since we are very far from Scotland, we ought to be reminded that squatting has always been illegal in Scotland.

This is despite left-ish parties having a majority in Holyrood. Neither the Greens nor Tommy Sheridan’s Scottish Socialist Party have made any attempts to introduce private members’ bills to legalise squatting there.

Martin Poritt, Tamworth Road, Hove