13 OCTOBER 1984, page 24

Breaking The Mole

Sir: Talking of moles (Postscript, 8 September; Letters, 29 September, 6 Octo- ber), try castor oil seeds. Noel Kent `Dewlish', Southbroom, 4277 Natal, South Africa......

Genetic Poison

Sir: It is sad to see your otherwise well- informed columnist Auberon Waugh championing nuclear energy (Another voice, 29 September). He must surely know that it poses two......

Scoop Of The Century

Sir: I have been reading with great interest in recent months your coverage of this chap Gordon, who appears to have gone out to govern the Sudan all on his own without any......

Unaffected Coverage

Sir: May I draw your attention to a factual error in Paul Johnson's article (The press, 29 September) entitled 'No more cleft sticks'. He says that there was a plan to close the......

Bucking The Trend

Sir: Paul Johnson is wrong (The press, 29 September) to assert that no British news- paper matches the foreign correspondent networks of the American press. The Financial Times......

Sir: So Sorry To Hear Of Peregrine's Gout (diary, 29

September). I am not joking when I suggest the magic cure is a cabbage leaf wrapped round his foot under his sock. Try not to laugh but it works. Eve Henley Welch Apartado 466,......

'problems At Home'

Sir: While agreeing with Jake Fletcher ('Black market discipline', 15 September) that teachers in desperation sometimes practise 'unofficial' physical punishment. I cannot......

Uncommon Fault

Sir: Let Peregrine Worsthorne (Diary, 29 September) consider the words of the gouty nobleman to his commiserating friend: 'I believe I live too chaste; 'tis not a common fault......