From Mr Martin Lloyd-Penny.

Sir, I read with great interest your article "Employers turning to older workers" (June 12). As an experienced chartered accountant and businessman I experienced ageism in the workplace when I reached 50 and decided to fight back. The result is www.matureaccountants.com - an online recruitment service I set up last year that is slowly overtaking my life. The response and interest has been quite overwhelming and I now have a database of hundreds of experienced candidates, many of whom are struggling to find work in spite of the alleged shortage of qualified accountants in the UK.