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The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not appear to check addresses of car owners even when it has them on record (Rise of the \u2018ghost owner\u2019: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper records, 23 April). Where I live, two vehicles are registered that are not mine, and the ultra-low emission zone fines, parking charges and bailiffs\u2019 letters for motoring infractions are piling up. Surely there should be checks before a V5C logbook is issued? The increase in ghost owners of vehicles will not be stemmed by controlling who sells cloned plates. For a young person, the cost of insurance could be \u00a31,500 a year. If they get caught, the fine is \u00a3400 and points on their licence. That will be seen as a no-brainer. They might think again if the penalty was \u00a35,000, loss of licence and the vehicle being scrapped. If the increase in cancer diagnoses is \u201clargely due to a\u00a0growing and ageing population\u201d (Report, 23\u00a0April), why does the NHS stop routine bowel and breast cancer testing after the early 70s? The full version of the \u201cwazzock\u201d insult, as used by Tony Capstick in the early 80s (Letters, 22 April), was \u201cyou great useless, spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock\u201d. I am disturbed that someone thought it necessary to clone extra monarch butterflies into a photo (Corrections and clarifications, 23 April). Are we down to the last two? Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not appear to check addresses of car owners even when it has them on record (Rise of the \u2018ghost owner\u2019: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper records, 23 April). Where I live, two vehicles are registered that are not mine, and the ultra-low emission zone fines, parking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1054,5728,24362,17728],"class_list":{"0":"post-48853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-address","9":"tag-checks","10":"tag-dvla","11":"tag-lacking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Graeme Thorn<\/strong>
Arnos Grove, London<\/em><\/p>\n
Simon Allen<\/strong>
Wendover, Buckhinghamshire<\/em><\/p>\n
Jane Ghosh<\/strong>
Bristol<\/em><\/p>\n
Robert Graham<\/strong>
Sandweiler, Luxembourg<\/em><\/p>\n
Eric Sharp<\/strong>
Newcastle upon Tyne<\/em><\/p>\n