Madam, – Even Ken Buggy of Waterford (February 24th) paid over the odds for paracetamol in Newry at 1.7 cent per tablet. Yesterday in Belfast I bought 16 paracetamol tablets in Boots for 16p, about 1 cent each. Perhaps more telling was the cost of a car wash, at £2. No doubt the providers of this service here, minimum €6, will say we have the finest car washers in the world and that the service in Belfast is of a much poorer standard. – Yours, etc,