ONE of the strengths of the RCTS is that it has branches across the length and breadth of the country, from the Solent in the south to Scotland in the north, and from Ipswich in the east to South Wales in the west. Unsurprisingly, the distribution tends to reflect the density of population, with London and the south having more than the more sparsely populated areas such as Wales and Scotland. Yorkshire has three branches (the West Riding, Humberside and Sheffield) while the Merseyside, Cheshire & North Wales branch covers a very large geographical region.