29 JANUARY 1994, Page 24

The Sussex Ripper

Sir: Arnold Butler (Letters, 22 January) reports that in Lowestoft Library Guardian readers are in the habit of cutting out items from it. Such crime has no boundaries. In the library which I frequent when down here, not only is The Spectator kept under the counter but readers have to sign

LETTERS

for it, such is the rabble which rips out pages.

Christopher Hawtree 53 Westbourne Street, Hove,

Sussex