SIR - I read that Leslie Ash is to be awarded £5 million!

I would much rather the money, and much more, be awarded to the families of our Afghanistan dead and wounded and also those victims of the Porton Down experiments who were lied to and cheated out of a suitable compensation for volunteering, as they thought, for nerve gas experiments and who have been offered a miserly £8,300! It is not a way to treat our heroes.

PETER ALCOCK, Upton Snodsbury.