SIR - I have just read George Cowley's mutterings about why people don't go into pubs. Well, I have been going into pubs for longer than I can remember and am pleased to say I have never had a broken glass thrust in my face as he most charmingly put it.

He was blaming pubs for teenage pregnancies and wife beating? I wonder if this self-appointed expert on pubs has actually been in one recently or ever.

Dave Pittam, Worcester.