19 APRIL 2003, Page 31

Bomb on a bike

From Mr Edward Verity

Sir: While I don't dispute Harry Mount's -views on Martin McGuinness or the police's frequently inverted priorities (Hands off my bike', 12 April), I don't believe he is correct to assert that 'there has never been a bicycle bomb in Britain'. In August 1939 an IRA bomb left in the basket of a bicycle killed five people and injured 100 in Coventry — a particularly cruel attack, given what the city was shortly to suffer at the hands of the Nazis.

Edward Verity London SW18 If you would like to email letters for publication, please send them to letters@speetatorco.uk, including your postal address and telephone number.