Adam Trimingham was spot on when he examined the issues at stake with the firemen's pay strike.
As he put it, there is no shortage of applicants for such jobs, whose working practices have been unchanged for decades and which remain an almost totally white, male preserve.
They will have to settle for a lot less than 40 per cent and they know it.
-A Blake, Vernon Terrace, Brighton
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