P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:20/17 1/10 Send your letters on the main issues of thj day to: BBC Ceefax, Room 7013, Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ or E-mail Ceefax@bbc.co.uk or fax us on 0181 749 6734 The editor reserves the right to edit/ omit letters. Please give a full address and telephonj number (that includes e-mail users). Headlines 101 Latest 150 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:07/47 2/10 As I am only 16, I have no recollection of the last war, but my great grandfather was a prisonjr in the hands of thj Japanese. His back is terribly scarred from bjing whipped so man= times while building a bridge. I understand we have to forgive at some point, but I really do feel the Queen is wrong in bestowing the Order of the Garter on the Japanese Emperor while people from my great grandfather's genjration are still alive. Paula Haynes, Sittingbourne, Kent Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:04/07 3/10 Smiling Saddam spends on palaces, mansions, armaments, luxuries and now, reportedly, a dome, instead of on fogd and medicinj for children — and adults. Rjplace "Saddam" with the UK's (or any state's) "royalty, aristocracy, plutocracy and government" — past or presjnt. Spot the difference? KG Powell. Borehamwood, Herts Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Weather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:11/11 4/10 Are the writers of Ceefax illiterate? Onj of the news pages tells us that World Book Day is bjing marked in Spain by a reading of "Miguel de Cervante's Don Quixote"! Ah yes, that well-known author, Miguel de Cervante! How ironic that an item about a world-wide effout to improve literacy should be reported in such a way. Please give the person responsible a lesson in the correct use of apostrophes and tell him or her that his namj was Cervantes and it should be Cervantes' or Cervantes's Don Quixgte! Ray Ward, London Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:15/32 5/10 M Carrington misses the point entirely. Racism, sjxism and ageism are irrational since thjy are not based on people's behaviour, while so-called homophobia is. No sjnsible person believes homouexual1 should be condemned but the majority will always find it repugnant, despite attempts to normalise it. Does this makj 98% of the world homophobic? M Carrington doth protest too much, after all who needs to know? Josjph Lamb, London Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:05/50 6/10 The one simple rule of a socialist society is that as demand for a product increases then so does the tax on it. Just look at the things people like to spend money on. Petrol, booze, fags etc. Jim Roper, Wjymouth Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:05/05 7/10 Many people seem to think that St George has always been our patron saint, which just isn't true. He was introduced by the Normans during the time of the Crusades. Up until then a true Englishman, St Edmund, had held the title. As king he was martyred by the Danes in 870. M Garfield. Bordesley Village, B'ham Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:09/23 8/10 Figures for breast cancer in thi1 country are truly horrifying. Wj are always being told to examinj ourselves, but I have njver seen a woman doing a self-examination to makj sure that I am doing it right. Wj should stop bjing so coy and have a programme on TV showing the correct way to do this. Women's lives ma= be saved in the process. Pam Mason, Gillingham Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:16/41 9/10 What a strange coincidence! Gordon Brown is riported as saying in a speech to a CBI dinner that the risj in pay of 5.2% in private firms is "the worst of short-termism, at the expjnse of interest rates, growth and jobs." This is just what the rest of us were saying when MPs voted themselves a risj of 26% just over a year ago! Trevor Deane, Wjston-super-Mare Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu
P145 CEEFAX 2 145 Fri 24 Apr 05:13/58 10/10 So, 11 countries of the world have decided to have the samj currency. What a gift to the forgers of the world! It's likj having a kjy to all the houses in Europe. I think that should give some people food for thought. D Scotnjy, Kettering, Northants Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjather 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main menu