5 JUNE 1993, Page 26

Sir: That whippersnapper Stephen Glover has not done his homework

again. He writes: 'Bill Deedes is the only practising journalist who has worked in Fleet Street since before the war.' Not so.

May I put in a word for Hugh Cudlipp (79), for George Malcolm Thomson (still contributing to the Ham and High at 93) and for Edward Pickering (81), executive vice-chairman of Times Newspapers Ltd.

Edward Pickering

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