I was disgusted to read car parking for nurses and all medical staff is to rise from £1 to £1.50 a day at the Great Western Hospital.

These dedicated, hard-working lifesavers should not have to pay at all.

The extra 50 per cent rise apparently is for a car park extension. The extra costing could have been avoided if a multi-storey car park had been allowed to be built, but was stopped by John Prescott, causing, as everyone knows, chaos for parking spaces every day.

Funding this in any way should not be met by medical staff.

S Pickett, Ermin Street, Stratton, Swindon.