Were they about post office closures set to impact on our communities?

About proposed car parking charges which have caused uproar among some?

Or were they about the ongoing battle of campaigners against the developers of windfarms?

No, they have been in angry response to a teacher, who decided to park in a parent and child space at Morrisons in Diss.

Trawling back through the Diss Express archives over the past year or two, there doesn't appear to have been any issue that has elicited such a response in such a short space of time.

And today, if you care to scan the letters on this page, the debate has polarised with several responses now coming out in favour of the teacher.

I know newspapers are sometimes accused of blowing stories out of all proportion, but scanning the letters that state she should be "ashamed of herself'" or accusing the angry readers as being part of the "Parent Mafia" seems a bit over the top to me.

Technically she was wrong to park there, and from reading the letter I think she knows it and I assume it is not something she does habitually.

The question is why does this sort of thing provoke more reaction than stories which could be considered more important?

My theory is that the letter tapped into that quintessentially British bugbear – rudeness.

The level of response that it generated could be down to the fact that most people have to endure what they consider to be rudeness at some point nearly every day.

The teacher's letter provided an opportunity to vent that frustration.

One thing is for sure, she probably got more than she bargained for when she wrote in.