Gillian Middleton understandably asks whether a picture showing the unspeakable pain of Gloria Hunniford's grief at the loss of her daughter is what we "really want" as Argus readers (Letters, April 27).
Personally, I find this a difficult question - especially when that day's Argus also showed the suffering faces of Michael and Sara Payne, the father of murdered Damilola Taylor and Jamie Bulger's mother.
For what it's worth, I believe the picture of Ms Hunniford in the agony of grief was something important for us to see. Words are totally inadequate at such times - but this picture can allow us, unobtrusively, to share the pain of a mother's grief and I somehow feel it can help in our grieving too.
I can't quite explain why but I don't have a problem with this particular image in The Argus - when I do have a very real problem with the last images of Princess Diana shown on American TV last week. My reaction to that is unprintable.
-Richard Symonds, Ifield, Crawley
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