Daylight robbery

Why do well-meaning international bodies like the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), which instigated the big switch-off for one Earth Hour of darkness last Saturday night (your report, 5 March), not come out instead to publicly support daylight saving in this country?

Maintaining our clocks on British Summertime from last October until 28 March would have saved at least one hour of electricity every day of the week – rather than one hyped-up day in the year achieved by the Earth Hour.

And would not the application of Daylight Saving in the future eliminate the need for building one extra nuclear power station to meet the fatuous waste of energy created by turning our clocks back one hour every autumn?

THE LORD TANLAW

Eskdalemuir, by Langholm

Dumfriesshire