ON the few "market awareness" days last year that we were allowed back on to Parliament Street my takings increased.

This tells me that it's the number of people who pass my stall that counts as much as the type of goods I am selling.

Unfortunately, when the market awareness day fell on my normal trading day in Newgate Market I had to pay for, and man, both stalls - this is market policy.

Janet Brown,

Vyner House,

Acomb,

York.

Updated: 10:51 Wednesday, April 27, 2005