31 AUGUST 1985, page 21

Perils Of Travel: Coaches

Sir: I have journeyed many miles this year on express coaches and on British Rail. No doubt coaches like those described by Mr Dalgleish (Letters, 24 August) with 'air......

Hovercraft

Sir: I would like to advise anyone thinking of travelling by hovercraft to think again, following my own alarming experience three weeks ago at the start of my holiday.......

Letters Uncooked Poems

Sir: Elizabeth Jennings, admirable poet, asks why so many poets 'who showed quite extraordinary promise' when young have `yet seldom published a single book of poems' later......

South African Bullying

Sir: An oblique example of what your Leader labelled the South African school of bullying is contained in Mr Stanworth's letter in the same issue (24 August) from the Cape. When......

Kerouac

Sir: Most of Andrew Brown's lucid account of Gerald Nicosia's biography of Jack Kerouac (27 July) cannot be faulted, but he makes a couple of false assumptions in passing. He......

Escalators

Sir: Further to your article on the lack of maintenance on London Transport (Lead- er, 17 August), 1 should like to add a complaint to the already considerable amount you have......