26 MAY 1967, Page 28

Watercress

Sir: The pseudo-news headlines on arts notices in the Daily Telegraph and The Times have long been one of the dottier (if harmless) aberrations of Fleet Street ('The Press,' 19 May). What puzzles me is why Donald McLachlan didn't sort this. out for the Telegraph when he was presumably in a position to do so.

K. P. Obank The Red House, Burstead Close, Cobham, Surrey Donald McLachlan writes : When I was deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph culture notices were always on a news page and subject quite rightly to7 the style rules of such a page. The opportunity to do differently has come with bigger papers.