Weighing in on the heavy SUV debate | Brief letters

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Regarding your editorial on SUVs (16 March), a simple way to make road users pay their share is to tax vehicles by weight. I’d quite happily pay my share towards the road damage caused, and space taken up, by my bicycle. Richard Jones Bristol

• I never read travel journalism as I believe that if a place sounds too wonderful everyone else will be inspired to visit it too. But Mark Cocker (Country Diary, 17 March) had me fooled into wanting to go and look at the flowers in … no, I won’t say where. Jocelyn Rose Fort William, Highlands