I TOTALLY disagree with the daft and dangerous idea that Britain adopts a Single \ Double Time and abandons GMT as advocated in Mailbox last week.

This was done many years ago and I can vividly remember the dark and dismal days we suffered through the winter during that period.

I went to work in the dark, came home from work in the dark and never saw the sun while working in an office.

Seeing the sun is not only good for us but it makes us cheerful.

The dark mornings were dangerous for people going to work and children going to school.

Here in the north there is very little daylight during the winter months, no matter what the time is on the clock.

I assume this campaign is being waged by those who live in the south and therefore have more daylight hours in the winter at the moment.

Keeping BST in the winter when the cold discourages people to travel irrespective of how light it is makes no sense.

There are also many thousands of people who enjoy looking up at the night sky and it needs to be very dark to enjoy this.

It is bad enough in the summer when the sky does not become dark until very late.

Light skies in the winter would be disastrous for astronomers.

Why are people so afraid of the dark?

Audrey Moore, Wallasey