31 AUGUST 2002, page 25

Fathers On Trial

Sir: It has been two years since my wife left me, after 14 years of marriage, taking my two daughters with her to set up home with a man she'd had a month-long affair with.......

From Mr Robert Bartlett

Sir: Griffin Stone should know that the family-court system in the United States is also absolutely biased against fathers. I have spent the last ten years waiting for my child......

Relatively Unfair

From Mr Richard Nottage Sir: Rachel Johnson (`The cost of dying', 17 August) states that `in France, relatives pay a modest 5 per cent impost on legacies above 137,000 euros'.......

From Mr Rory Knight Bruce Sir: Rachel Johnson's...

in writing about death duties is, in part I suspect, because she has not yet had to pay them. Her highlighting of John Major's deal to absolve the Queen of the burden wrongly......

Revenge Is Not Sweet

From the Revd Frank Julian Gelli Sir: Mark Steyn (The war Bush is losing', 24 August) is entitled to his very one-sided point of view on 'radical Islamism'. What he is not......

The Nhs Crisis

From Dr C.B. Brown Sir: The response of Nigel Crisp (Letters, 24 August), chief executive of the NHS, to your leading article of the 17 August on the parlous state of the NHS......