I was relieved to read (Jan 11) that expansion plans for Southend Hospital includes a multistorey car park.

Having experienced the massive car parking fees Southend Hospital constantly extorts from relatives visiting their seriously ill loved ones, and, no doubt, the even greater charges they will make in the future, the residents of Southend need have no worries that there will be plenty of money available to finance the whole of the hospital expansion programme.

This will have the added benefit, thanks again to the car-owning public, to allow the Government to spend taxpayers' money on its much more important priorities, namely the funding of massive legal aid bills for human rights appeals by murderers, rapists and muggers and to providing luxury hotel accommodation for illegal immigrants.

P Lyons
Church Road
Benfleet