Letter: Placing minor order for egg-timer highlighted the damage done to local trade and my citizenship

I was told that as it had to be ordered in Britain it would take around two weeks to satisfy a separate customs regime.

We have heard rows and, in some cases, denials that this separation is so severe.

I felt that I was not being treated as a 'British subject' and whilst this is a small inconvenience compared to big orders it really came home to me the damage that has been done to local trade and my citizenship.

David Barbour, Coleraine