Sir – I have just returned home from house sitting to my home in Canal Street, Jericho.

It’s 6am on Bank Holiday Monday. As I approach Canal Street I walk into a barrage of fumes. Diesel. The air is thick with them — like the industrial revolution, I think, from the trains running their engines in the sidings a few hundred yards away.

I wonder again about moving. I really have no choice. How many mornings have I (like all these people around me slumbering in their houses) breathed in these noxious particulates as I slept. No wonder my sinuses are getting blocked again.

My doctor suggested a puffer thing like asthmatics use.

I reckon it’s more sensible to move house. The railway people aren’t intersted in changing their engine-running, polluting, expensive habits and most people, it seems, like me, just sleep through the slow poisoning.

It would be interesting to know if the numbers of lung cancer cases, asthmatics, coughs, sinus problems and so on have much increased in this area since we’ve had these extra sidings.

Carole Guberman, Jericho