Sir: The correct use of the apostrophe is indeed complex, as William Powell says (Letters, 27 April); he is surely wrong to be so dogmatic in dismissing your earlier correspondent Stephen Thomas's complaint that 'Forces Sweetheart' (an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum) lacks an apostrophe.

Sir: 'Forces Sweethearts' (an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, which includes letters home written by British soldiers) is not missing an apostrophe. The word 'Forces' is being used adjectivally - cf, 'soldier boy'.

LET US begin with a quotation. It is from Winston Churchill's My Early Life. 'By being so long in the lowest form (at Harrow, where he had to repeat a year) I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.'

BRITAIN'S most decorated wartime pilot, Lord Cheshire, who died last year, left his medals to the Imperial War Museum. Lord Cheshire left pounds 130,076, but after the medals' value was deducted his wife, Lady Ryder, was left pounds 76.

VALENTINE's Day gifts should always arrive shrouded in mystery and suspense. But with so much kitsch in the shops, finding a present to match the spirit of the occasion is not always easy. Undeterred, Retail Therapy has come up with the following tips:

SHE WAS a model, a Bond girl and Purdey in The New Avengers. She was a columnist, travel writer and an autobiographer. Beauty, brains, and now the beast in BBC2's Absolutely Fabulous, Joanna Lumley has cast off the gorgeous pouting image to show sudden comic talent. In AbFab, as she calls it, she plays a drunken, freeloading fashion editor, Patsy, who wears Chanel suits and a beehive hair-do worthy of a Restoration comedy. She curls her lip over a ciggie, dunks it in the red wine, then snarls out asides that bring the sin out of cynical. In a few weeks, AbFab has established itself as BBC2's most popular programme, with 8 million viewers at the last count. A second series will be filmed in the spring.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY has poured china clay evenly over the floor of the Turske Hue-Williams Gallery in Old Bond Street, central London, to a depth of four centimetres. You cannot get in until he takes the clay out again on 27 November, but you can look at it through the front window and from the offices at the back.

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The Queen was represented by Lord Moore of Wolvercote at a memorial mass to celebrate the life and work of Gp Capt Lord Cheshire which was held yesterday at Westminster Cathedral, London SW1. The Duke of Edinburgh was represented by Canon George Hall, the Prince and Princess of Wales by Mr Peter Holland, The Duke of York by Capt Rupert Maitland-Titterton, Prince Edward by Mrs Richard Warburton, The Princess Royal by the Hon Mrs Louloudis, The Queen Mother by Sir Alastair Aird, Princess Margaret by Major The Lord Napier and Ettrick, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester by Lt-Col Sir Simon Bland, The Duke and Duchess of Kent by the Marquess of Lothian, and Princess Alexandra by The Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy. The Prime Minister was represented by Mr Richard Ryder MP.

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