WHEN I buy any appliance ie washing machine/TV/computer the retailer sells my details on to other companies. The government should pass a law making it an offence to pass on my details.

If you take out a direct debit, you need to check bank statements carefully or you could find other companies are also taking your money. A family friend had five taking his money, and the police said its not a criminal offence now.

Finally if I take out a contract for say a phone as I did with Orange at the end of the contract they should, by law, have to ask if you want to renew the contract, not keep taking the money, even when told three times in writing that I didn’t want to renew. Plus they don’t answer letters.

A legal expert recently said on TV, you cannot assume a person is going to do something, a person has to be asked.

M E Peart, Blackwood.