17 NOVEMBER 1979, page 19

The Lucan Affair

Sir: Perhaps I could be permitted through your columns to echo Mrs Maxwell-Scott' s feeling of unease regarding the inquest on the murder of the Lucarts' nursemaid , Sandra......

The Fluoride Threat

Sir: Yes, Yes. Perhaps the Government will be putting senna pods into our water supplies next just to ease matters (Simon Courtauld, Notebook , 3 November); but there is a more......

A Dentist Writes

Sir: Simon Courtauld (Notebook, 3 November) tells us that he is 'completely ignorant about fluoride'. He should have stopped at that point. In the Thirties and Forties fluoride......

The Myth That Failed

Sir: Poor Peter Ackroyd. He must be a Cambridge man. Only an alumnus of the Fenland Polytechnic would so readily admit to boring days, melancholy nights, and lugubrious......

Hungary In Perspective

Sir: It's a shame that Tim Garton Ash's article on Hungary (6 October) should have dwelt so relentlessly on the one aspect of life in that country which is so vulnerable to the......