12 APRIL 1997, page 28

Waste Producers

Sir: What is it with right-wingers and human solid waste? Neil Hamilton (It is untrue', 29 March) describes Max Clifford as 'Fayed's effluent-spreader' (untrue), a Daily......

The Price Of Houses

Sir: What a refreshing change to read such a fair and balanced leader on Har-Homa (22 March). Your readers might not be aware that Har-Homa lies wholly within the municipal......

Sir: Whilst Reading Frederick Forsyth's Excoriating Piece...

Patient it was possible to detect the peculiarly intense tang of sour grapes. Could he secretly resent the critical success of Michael Ondaatje's book and the bravura with which......

Mistaken Identity

Sir: I enjoyed reading Frederick Forsyth's article, 'Impatient with The English Patient' (29 March). He might also have drawn attention to the fact that in October 1942 the......

Rara Avis

Sir: Although he was born in 1918 of an American mother, Alastair Forbes may be unaware that American daughters are often given the same name as their mother. Thus the wife and......

Courageous Cradock

Sir: Matthew Parris in his piece, 'The great betrayal' in the Times of 28 March, accused Sir Percy Cradock of a 'yellow streak', one attribute of which Sir Percy could never be......

That Plan Again

Sir: In answer to Mr Damant (Letters, 5 April), I believe that I am not alone in arguing that my great-grandfather's plan would have triumphed had it not been fatally weakened......