I read your report about Matthew Hardy and his affair with a 15-year-old schoolgirl with great sadness, but the reason I am writing is to say how refreshing and heartening it was to read a report that appeared to be very factual and non-sensational.

As someone who works in another school, these stories fill all of us with dread, but I know that your account was accurate and was, I thought, very well-written.

Thank you for understanding the heartache that can be involved in these stories for all concerned. I will make a point to read your paper more often now that I have seen what your reporting is like. I wish more papers were like you.

Louise Higham, Gilling East, York.