13 MARCH 1976, page 19

Bad Language

Sir: Your timely comments ('Notebook', 21 February) on the decline in the standard of English in use in broadcasting apply equally to journalism. For example, was it a printer's......

Rhodesia

Sir: Two gross misstatements appear in Your editorial of 21 February: numbers of Whites arriving after 1965 and still resident do not exceed those previously living here; and,......

Gulag Capricorn?

Sir: Forgive the delayed response to your correspondent, Mr Newman of St Albans, but arrival of your publication was delayed because the postman's forked stick broke. Mr Newman......

Not So

Sir: My attention has been drawn belatedly to your TV critic's review of the Man Alive report (BBC2, 3 February) on public disgrace arising from police harassment of......

Gambling

Sir: As your readers may know, a Royal Commission on Gambling has been established, under Lord Rothschild's chairmanship, to inquire into the existing law and practice relating......

Railway Alert

Sir: While public opinion has now been widely alerted to the very real danger of a drastic contraction in this country's railway system, much work remains to be done to persuade......