Well done on a very informative and interesting article (Daphne Caruana Galizia TMID, 20 April.) It really made me smile, but actually the points you raised are very serious – you must resist the bureaucracy that will creep up on you and take you unawares if you are not careful in Malta.

I found your article when I was doing some research on the internet trying to find out who issues your speeding fines by post. I live in the UK but my car hire company in Malta has just sent me a speeding ticket supposedly issued four months ago. I tried to be so very careful near your tunnel!

All I can say is that your system just could not hope to compete with the ludicrous situation we have here in the UK. Here we have, in some instances, speed cameras every few hundred yards and speed humps – or the strangely named “sleeping policemen” that jolt both your car and you until your teeth rattle. Here I would suggest we have accidents caused because so many people take their eyes from the road to check their speed as these cameras loom into view. I do not know if you have points added to your license there but here it is three points for a speeding ticket, 12 points and your license is lost. Well, you may say you where braking the law, but consider this, in some instances they are issued even if the offence is just going a tiny amount over and now we have had proof that cameras can get it wrong; the reason we know this is because a brick wall was logged at going at 30 miles an hour in a test using a police speed gun, the test carried out by a national newspaper.

I recently got a ticket for parking slightly outside of the white lines in a car park here in the UK but I had only had to do this because the car next to me was squint, needless to say that car had moved by the time I got back to find my ticket, this was a shame because I had a camera in my handbag and would certainly have argued my case!

All I can say is this – keep on using your journalistic skills to point out the problems you are having, because for you, at the moment things are not too bad but once the cash cow that these cameras and fines have become in the UK is recognised in Malta things will only go from bad to worse.

Having said all of that though, Malta is a great country full of wonderful warm people and we will be back very soon, God willing. Keep up the good work.

Georgina McKinnon

UK