30 OCTOBER 2004, Page 40

From Gregory Murphy

Sir: Reluctant as I am to prolong the Liverpool controversy, I must correct your correspondent Elizabeth Rogers-Ross (Letters, 23 October) in her memory of the much fabled, and somewhat over-played, Liverpolitan — to use the correct term — response to the IRA bomb hoax at the Aintree Grand National in 1997. She states that the 'late, much-loved Archbishop of Liverpool [the Most Revd] Derek Warlock [sic] praised the Liverpool "Mams" for their kind hospitality toward stranded out-oftownersf I can assure her and you that Archbishop Worlock did nothing of the sort, as he had been dead for 14 months at the time.

Gregory Mtaphy Editor (1996-95). Catholic Times, Aintree, Liverpool