5 MARCH 1994, Page 28

Sex on the Rock

Sir: Simon Courtauld is quite wrong to accuse the Bishop of Gibraltar of depriving the Royal Navy of 'much needed' relax- ation (`No sex on the Rock', 19 February). The present bishop is an Irishman, thus fol- lowing the convention of the bishop being alternately Spanish and Irish. It was the previous (Spanish) Bishop, Edward Rapal- lo, who issued the famous ban on the Play- boy-type magazines. Bishop Rapallo died in 1984.

Alan Fennely

90 Thornbank East, Bolton