12 DECEMBER 1998, page 32

Sir: On The Evening When Michael Vestey Puts Me In

the Newsnight studio telling Jere- my Paxman to drop a grovelling note to Peter Mandelson, I was actually at home. I watched Newsnight and did not talk to any- one about it......

Letters A Sorry Tale

Sir: If Michael Vestey had bothered to ask me, he might have written a more accurate piece than the farrago he produced last week (`You may be experiencing some interference', 5......

Sir: Roy Roebuck's Lengthy Letter Can Be Summed Up In

five words: Wigg didn't tell him everything. Galling that must be, but Wigg was always secretive. However, I'm glad he asserts that Wigg didn't probe the sexual peccadilloes of......

Wiggery-pokery

Sir: On the question of whether Wilson framed Wigg by inducing the police to arrest him on a false charge of kerb-crawling, I must reiterate that Lord Wigg told me many times......