This morning I noticed a group of young men from our local Polytech building a fence at the Pillans Point school. I talked to the supervisor, and they were all doing a carpentry course for a year at the Polytech. And they were making a good job of it too. A lovely picket fence, all straight, painted white, and it looks as if it will stand for a good many years. It replaces a piece of slack wire that has been there for as long as I can remember. After all the media attention given to the young people rioting in London and other parts of the UK, it's good to see young people doing well.

Kathy Fathers, Pillans Point.