14 FEBRUARY 1987, page 5

The Spectator

ATONING FOR GUILDFORD M Ps will now have had time to study the Home Office memorandum placed in the House of Commons library in ampli- fication of the Home Secretary's decision......

Surplus Acres

IT IS regrettable that Mr Michael Jopling should have so bungled his announcement of the Government's reforms for the coun- tryside, precipitating a largely unnecces- sary row......