So idle layabouts who scrounge off the taxes paid by those of us who work for a living are OK in you book, GUEST

Your words strolling - why are you so quick to deny them?

however I AM suggesting that to denigrate a woman for undertaking dangerous and unpleasant work is truly beneath contempt. It's bad enough that women should be driven by their circumstances to do this kind of work,

Like I said before, the woman in question who decided to capitalise on the sitation and sell her story to the tabloids, isn't being driven to endanger her life and possibly leave her kids motherless. She is a non drug user on income support who chooses to endanger herself and spotted another opportunity to make a quick buck out of the tragedy with the sleaze press. Wha a fine example of motherhood.

Save your sympathy for the lone parents who DO make ends meet and put their children first.