SIR — There must be many people like me who don’t report when they trip up.

I tripped up on a drain cover on the pavement in Kingsgate Street and ended up in Southampton General Hospital with a broken jaw, badly bruised shoulder, hip and leg, for which I’m still being treated.

This happened on September 12, and as I am 85 years old, I’m taking a long time to get better.

So, it is not only the city centre pavements which are bad: the whole city’s pavements need to be sorted out.

H S Crane (Mrs), Cromwell Road, Winchester.