17 OCTOBER 1987, page 27

Memory Lanes

Sir: Tom Pocock's article 'Demise of Fleet Street' (12 September) was outstanding. However, need he be so worried? Covent Garden is still the name for fruit and veg; others like......

Shares Alike

Sir: Perhaps I may make two observations about your comments on Mr Bryan Gould's ideas (Leading article, 3 October). The argument in favour of giving shares in their companies......

Revolting Kids

Sir: Owing to absence on holiday I have only just seen Graham Greene's letter in your 29 August issue in which he questions the statement that in Nicaragua 'education is now......

Letters Proletarian Degradation

Sir: Dr Anthony Daniels (`Too dependent on welfare?', 3 October) reports on filthy housing estates inhabited by people 'slat- ternly beyond belief, who seem to become more......

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