SIR – It’s been suggested that the Government is going to allow councils to give mortgages to help the housing market.
I think this is a good idea, but they should open the market still further and allow the big supermarkets to deal in mortgages as well.
What it needs is a lot of healthy competition because most of the building societies have turned themselves into banks and are reluctant to lend money
JOHN SHEARON,
Worcester.
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