24 NOVEMBER 1990, page 27

Sir: I Shall Not Forget The Refusal, When My Mother

died, of the vicar of her parish church (Ludham, Norfolk) to use the funeral service from the Book of Common Prayer, although he did finally agree to speak those poignant words......

If Symptoms Persist... In My Experience, Criminals Hardly...

what came over them. They ascribe their absence of mind variously to drink, drugs, their childhood, stress and the menopause. The problem for those of us who believe in plain......

Letters Funeral Rites And Wrongs

Sir: Your correspondent Peter Mullen's sad experience in a hospital chapel (`Their own funeral', 10 November), is not abso- lutely typical of the Church of England at this time.......

Niece One Valerie

Sir: What Antony Lambton surely very optimistically called his 'amusing' retalia- tory contribution to your Letters (17 November) was alas as short of facts as it was of humour,......