Letter: Grief hijacked

When you write (leader, 30 January) that many people on the mainland of Britain are likely to react to the new inquiry into Bloody Sunday by thinking there is little point in the taxpayer paying for a rather expensive piece of historical research, are you implying that this reaction is unlikely to be shared by those living on the Isle of Wight, on Skye, Islay, Harris and Lewis, Barra, Orkney, and Shetland?

ROBERT NOWELL

New Barnet, Hertfordshire