AT our annual general meeting three items from Radio Two's news bulletin attracted our attention.

Then we got the bulletin. All concerned morality.

1. Tony Blair responds to the Archbishop of Canterbury by assuring him he will consider the moral issues of attacking Iraq. By introducing the financial scam that is the national lottery. All politicians disqualified themselves from having further say on moral issues.

2. An anti fox-hunting lady refers to fox-hunting as a "moral issue". Oscar Wilde's insult: "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inevitable" is sufficient. There is much less cause for interference from the law than there is in the third item.

3. A mother is separated from her child on Christmas Eve, because her daughter played truant.

There are moral issues by the sackful within item three, all far more important than foxes. All those concerned with enforcing morality through the law ought to consider the ethics of a society that allows abuse of the law by its own agents and administrators.

W Brierley

Rushlake Drive

Bolton