Sir: As a retired and widowed travel man who worked for many years on the Continent and still mourns his Italian bride, I guess I am an instinctive European who just cannot understand the Euroscepticism of many Brits (or English?) and continues to be appalled by it.

AS THE Lord Chancellor led his judges into Westminster Abbey yesterday for the Opening of the Legal Year, he may have been in reflective mode. He may have remembered that, almost a year ago, he announced the withdrawal of legal aid from most civil disputes. He may have been reflecting that it has all proved more difficult than he had expected.

Always fancied yourself as a bit of an `Easy Rider'? Nerys Lloyd- Pierce takes a dream machine down the byways of Wales

ONE OF the most medieval and highly unusual legal processes will begin this week when Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, the Lord Chancellor's representative, starts his formal investigations into the sacking of Martin Neary, the organist at Westminster Abbey.

While most of the media slept, one reporter witnessed a side of the wake that few talked about.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE could be rescued from traffic and pedestrianised after a change of mind to be announced today by Tory-controlled Westminster City Council.

RODNEY GEE was a veteran of two world wars.

AS the annual Crucifixion procession concluded at Westminster Abbey yesterday, all appeared peaceful and harmonious. But behind the scenes a most unholy row was rumbling on.

Forcing Westminster Abbey's guides to give up their jobs at 75 has put the Dean at the centre of controversy - again, writes Rosa Prince

WESTMINSTER Abbey is to charge visitors an admission fee of pounds 5, but waive the fee for those who want to use the church for prayer. This raises the question of how the beadles at the West Door will perform the act of triage - distinguishing mere tourists from those with religious intent. And they must not let themselves be caught out by those arty types to whom gazing on Baroque sculpture or contemplating a soaring chancel equates to a spiritual experience.

Lady Solti and her two daughters outside Westminster Abbey yesterday after a tribute to the conductor Sir Georg Solti, who died last year.

Lady Solti and her two daughters outside Westminster Abbey yesterday after a tribute to the conductor Sir Georg Solti who died last year.

IN THE END they had roped off the south transept of Westminster Abbey so that you couldn't get to where Enoch Powell's body had been placed for its "lying in" the night before his funeral. "It's not before the High Altar," a red-robed Abbey divine said, a little too anxiously, "that privilege is reserved for members of the Royal Family and Abbey clergy." It was not in the Lady chapel, for that was reserved for members of the Order of the Garter, and John Enoch Powell was elevated no higher than the rank of privy counsellor. Rather it was in the chapel of St Faith, just off Poet's Corner.

"LYING in state" is hardly a correct description of the practice whereby the body of any member of the Westminster Abbey family, of which the late Enoch Powell, being a regular attendant at both St Margaret's Church and the Abbey, was a much-respected member, is allowed to rest in the Abbey overnight before the funeral (report, 16 February).