6 I THINK John Hinton is the same vintage as me - 1907. I thought I was reading a fairy story when I read his report of Ray Leach's writings.

Like many other people, I started work at the age of 13, worked hard until the age of 60, less seven years for two children.

I stood in food queues during The First World War, remember the poverty of the 1930s, the strikes, then all members of my family on war work. My husband served in France and later Tobruk.

Yet despite all these hard times, we still had time for a joke. We shared our togetherness amid all the poverty that existed in Britain

MRS N MOSELEY,

Worcester.

6 THIS country's slide into anarchy started in 1966 when Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins declared: "The permissive society is a civilised society". Well, now you've got it and its results.

The coming election, I predict, will produce the lowest poll ever. The electorate resembles a stagnant pool in its apathy. And in stagnant pools the scum rises to the top.

H KLEE,

Pershore.