Sir: I notice that in today's edition (24 April) you carry two seemingly unconnected stories on opposite sides of the same page. Figuratively too, these tales represent opposite sides of the same page and should give us cause to rejoice at living in ...

Lorraine Heggessey's film followed the case of Philip Adoo , or John Baptist, as he prefers to be known. John, a young Ghanaian, is convinced he was born white and that his twin sister has been cannibalised. These are unorthodox convictions, it's tru...

They are now settled into a ditch below the disused Wisley airfield in Surrey, where, if they were dressed like Venture Scouts, their camping skills would warm the cockles of Baden-Powell's heart. Their knowledge of country lore would be the pride of...

Sir: So, Tony Blair admires Mrs Thatcher, does he? Any so-called Labour leader who can utter such a thought has moved too far from the left to deserve the admiration, or the vote of, Yours truly, LYNNE REID BANKS Beaminster, Dorset 24 April

Nor are the jokes that he was so sensationally captured telling to an audience of policemen on World in Action on Monday especially different from his routine in his own club. Nor have they ever been. Bernard Manning is in his mid-sixties, the world ...

Sir: My eyes pop to learn that anyone still thinks infertility is an illness (Letters, 20 April). Clare Brown, of the National Infertility Awareness Campaign, asks: Why are infertile couples expected to accept that, for them, having children should b...

Sir: It was with some surprise that I read Paula Weidegger's article about Petra entitled "The pink city's future isn't rosy" (12 April) as it contained many erroneous statements. Ms Weidegger claimed that "a vast Roman forum is being `reconstructed'...

Sir: Your article "Admission of false Aids case suppressed by NHS" (6 April), a follow-up to one on 24 March relating to the world's first ever Aids victim, accused NHS officials of suppressing information and implies that the Central Manchester Heal...

Sir: Your leading article "Ancient law and modern science" (24 April) calls for "a full debate aimed at devising legislation to set rules governing a host of issues ranging from genetic testing and insurance to patenting, experimentation and confiden...

Sir: Further to the essay by Gareth Stedman Jones, it is perhaps worthwhile recalling that the following motion: that the object of the Independent Labour Party shall be to secure the collective and communal ownership of the means of productions dist...

Sir: So the perpetrator of the bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City turns out to be a home-grown nut. Yet how much print and paper, even in your own pages, not to mention broadcast time, was wasted on speculation about "the Iranian...

Cartoonists have found a physical resemblance, and there is at times a certain glint in Blair's eye that reminds one of the Lady. To compare the two is, of course, to compare early glimmerings of promise with a historical record. But their characters...

Manning's repartee is notorious, but that night he outdid himself. Jokes about beating up "niggers" and "coons" were followed by references to the Asian population of Bradford that might have graced the pages of a British National Party freesheet. Th...

Sir: I am afraid that the title of Christopher Bellamy's article on improvised explosives based upon ammonium nitrate ("Bomb built for damage, not slaughter," 22 April) may give the mistaken impression that they make less lethal bombs than those cont...

After taking advice from my financial adviser, I have taken out a personal pension scheme linked to life insurance and mortgage repayments, which involves me paying £340 a month. This wouldn't worry me so much, except that he insists that I pay the £...

Sir: Since people in Europe are so attached to their currency names, I do not see why they should not be allowed to keep them, when a single currency is achieved, with the simple prefix - for a time - of the word "new". After all, the British soon go...

The year was 1969-70, when experimental teaching methods were in full swing. Our school was no exception. Though we were mainly taught at desks, we also did group work. We even tried "integral" days, in which each child had to complete a number of ta...

Sir: Further to your story, "Financial crisis halts BBC series" (21 April), I feel it cannot be emphasised sufficiently how these cuts are to be implemented almost exclusively in those departments -drama, documentary, history and education - that ent...