EVERYWHERE you look there is heroism and good deeds, like the genuine compassion for Alex Lewis, the young man who has devastating injuries caused by a streptococcal infection and people who are raising money to aid this remarkable man and his family.

Then in last Monday’s Daily Echo we see pictures of beautiful babies loved and cherished, with their whole lives in front of them.

Sadly in the same edition we see the ugly side of human nature that someone had left needles in strategic places in the General hospital with the intent to injure innocent people, either patients or staff.

What monster would do such a thing, especially in a place of healing like a major hospital?

My most charitable thought would be that the perpetrators are criminally insane to do such a dastardly thing.

I read that as long as there are more good than bad people in the world, then the human race will survive.

Sometimes I feel it is a close-run thing, with so much war and strife around the world, but in reality there are far more good people than bad in this world, it’s just that bad things are more newsworthy.

Paradoxically, if good things ever become more newsworthy than bad, then we as a species will be in deep trouble.

PADDY MAXWELL, Southampton.