Is the inclusion of Thurso as being in the north of England intended to inflame the passions of the SNP or merely a reflection of the fact that in your well thumbed office altas - all the pages north of Watford are now stuck together - having never been opened.

Bob Robinson, Preston, North of Watford

I had to laugh when I read this story, come over to Australia and see how our weak Competition Commission is. The two majors over here control around 85 percent of the market and now they are gunning for control of the petrol market. In New Zealand the Competition Commission refused Woolworths from Australia taking over one of the retailers on the grounds it would reduce competition. Good on them. It is common sense to say that any market that operates close to duopoly is dangerous for consumers.

Richard, Melbourne, Australia

Over the last 30 years I have had direct experience of large organisations in the IT industry acting in a predatory manner to maintain their positions and remove competition. The classic being for a large company to announce a new product which doesn't actually exist yet so that smaller companies scrap their developments on the grounds that it won't be worth competing. The new product is then quietly dropped if the market response is seen to be too small to justify further development. This stifles innovation.

Dennis, Wareham, Dorset

Mr Home puts the position very well , when obstacles are erected repeatedly to try and limit success in a free society . The competition commission might try to "make a level playing field " by concocting other forms of handicap as one does in some sports when a competitor is better than the other rivals .
Brian Lascelles

Brian Lascelles, cattistock, uk

The British have the habit of knocking the sucessful and trying to prevent them from serving their customers. If Tesco didn't provide the needs of the consumer they would be boycotted as they failed in their mission. That is why so many British inventions were exploited by companies in other countries

Robert Peake, Malaga, Spain

Why have rival supermarkets been asked to "comment" on the acquisition? Wouldn't they be rather prejudiced witnesses?

Cat, WGC,

What is the idea of prosecuting large sucessful organisations?
Microsoft, Tesco, and other huge commercial concerns all being accused of being sucessful, and being told to hand over to unsucessfull rivals the secret of their success or to stop competing with no hope rivals.
These huge concerns did NOT demands rivals stop selling when they made their way to the top.

This trend of stopping sucessful enterprises is sinister and very stupid and how many of the critics have ever been silly enough to attempt to shop in a "Corner Shop".??

Charles Horne, Chichester,