6 JULY 1974, page 5

Abortion Rates

Sir: What an absurd fellow your Dr Linklater is! He talks about the "soaring abortion rates" — though the British abortion figures have hardly changed for the past three years.......

Riding Reader

Sir: As an occasional reader both of your paper and of Motor Cycle News I should like to protest against the arrogance of Bill Grundy's article in your issue of June 22. I......

Crime Wnters

Sir: I liked very much the fine romantic Jekyll-and-Hyde conception of me, and of Bloody Murder, in your Crime Compendium. Jekyll Symons is somebody whose "reviewing of crime......

The Church And Homosexuals

Sir: The unfortunate Mr R. L. Court, reeling under the lash of the Rural Dean of Wickford, must be wondering what he has done that deserves such treatment. Mr Court pointed out......

109 High Street, Amersham Sir: I Must Take Serious Issue

with the Dean of Wickford's letter in the June 22 issue. It is difficult to see why an alleged priest would take issue with someone *saying homosexuality is immoral. If he would......

Chinese Methods

Sir: Dr Bernard Dixon's remarks on the importance of the Chinese language in directing science along the right road (June 8) are underlined by the Flixborough disaster, the......

Whose Phrase?

Sir: It does not seem to have occurred to Mr Jacob (Letters, June 29) that an intelligent person like Anatole France could have adapted someone else's phrase to his own use –......