Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and detection at an early stage is crucial.

Eight out of 10 women diagnosed with the cancer are 50 or over,and entitled to free screening, but the message is not getting across. More needs to be done to get women through the doors.

Of course people cannot be coerced into this, so perhaps more needs to be done to educate everyone about the disease.

As for the quality of screening, the fact that it has ever been questioned is alarming and hospitals cannot afford to compromise over this kind of provision.

Hopefully Brent and Chase Farm Hospitals' failings have been discovered before too many have been let down by the service and hopefully this is the end of its problems.

Our outdated Tube stations

IS IT any wonder that most disabled people avoid using the London Underground altogether,when TfL fails to implement necessary infrastructure.

Not only has it short-sightedly placed a poorly constructed ramp at Stanmore Station in a bid to claim it has disabled access, but it is ignoring calls to implement a lift, at a time when other changes are being pushed through.

Stanmore is not the only station in Harrow in need of disabled access, but when the area boasts one of the most prestigious spinal hospitals in the country it beggars belief that the disabled are not properly catered for.

At present, of the 13 under-ground stations that serve the borough, only two are fitted with lifts, one of which - Pinner - took an age to install.

Access on the tube for disabled Harrovians is embarrassing and behind the times.