Perhaps, with the TUC in Brighton this week, it's rather an appropriate moment to remember when newspaper photographs were black and white and deliveries to newsagents were often hit and miss due to constant strikes.

We now take for granted our newspapers' good quality colour photographs and updated news direct to the printed page.

Trade union restrictive practices would still have us without these were it not for those who stood up against the unions and introduced vast improvements into the industry.

Would the Labour Party not forget this example of how the trade unions curtailed these important improvements to the public simply so their print members could benefit?

-Charles and Shelagh Holcombe, Watercress Management, Dorset Gardens, Brighton