KEITH Chapman and Stuart Wilson are right to draw attention to the loss of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4, which will occur in 2015.

The Government has sold the FM frequencies for mobile phone use (apart from a few low-power local stations), 80 per cent of people do not use digital radio sets, and will find that they get no signal when the switch-off happens.

Can you imagine having bins in Parliament Street for people to throw away their perfectly good sets? More than 120 million analogue radios are in use, and FM sets are still being advertised.

Portables and battery radios can be replaced if we are willing to pay, but the cherished and expensive hi-fi receivers and the popular stereo music centres need to be adapted so they can continue working. Repair, reuse, recycle – can it be done?

Analogue TVs can have a set-top box. Urge your MP to press manufacturers to cater for this huge market by developing a conversion kit so that the radio sets can still be used.

Can any government afford to ignore 80 per cent of the electorate? A bill is being rushed through before the election. Were any of us asked if we wanted digital radio?

Monica Nelson, Custance Walk, York.