Does he have any idea what he is doing and why?The entire content of the speech was a paean of praise for

Does he have any idea what he is doing and why?The entire content of the speech was a paean of praise for marriage, portraying his liberalising divorce reforms as no more than marriage guidance that would get couples back together again He sounded like the Pope. We hope that industry and regulators will take note and provide detailed environmental information on the Net.Yours sincerely,Alan WatsonSenior CampaignerFriends of the EarthLondon, N119 October. From Mr and Mrs R. Gregson

Sir: We have long held that Delia Smith’s recipes bear the same relationship to cooking as painting by numbers does to art, and so were immensely pleased to find in Rose Shepherd’s article “Delia runs wild in the bookshop” (17 October) that we are not as alone in this opinion as our friends and neighbours would like us to think.
What is this fear of cooking that the Sian Forbeses (letter, 21 October) of the world claim to inhibit them? Surely, once you have mastered a few basic techniques, then the joy is in the experimentation and creation of thinking for yourself in the kitchen – and learning in the process.Even if it does go wrong (and it is rarely all that bad), you can always turn to the pizza in the freezer or an omelette to stave off hunger. He was foaled in 1808 and died in 1836 when he was buried with military honours at Strathfield Saye A headstone marks his grave.Yours faithfully,Joan A DavisFreshwater, Isle of Wight21 October.

He was then bought by Colonel Charles Wood, together with another horse, for 400 guineas for the Duke, with whom he soon became a favourite.Copenhagen was a small horse, a stallion standing about 15 hands high, but of great strength and endurance. What you and he see is the figure of a woman, clothed all in black, staring Streep- like out to sea.* * *The author approaches, but does not speak The woman looks up. “Women are truly ready.”When she was working part-time in the West Slough Team Ministry she met and married the Rev Robert Hingley, in 1983, and they had a remarkable partnership in ministry. , published last year, Sidey also told the story of Radio Leeds. Frank Gillard, the former managing director of BBC Radio, said that Sidey’s points convinced the entire Labour hierarchy of the success of the BBC’s local radio experiment.In a lively book, Hello, Mrs Butterfield.

Very much a child of the Beer Orders’ transformation of the British pub market, Tom Cobleigh is coming to the market next month with a placing to raise about pounds 22m. “I am sick and tired of these innuendoes you and your group describe.”Mr Treger said he and the fellow dissident shareholders, who own just more than 15 per cent in Scholl, cared very much about the company. There was a musical interlude too, a medley of hits from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the bards of the Thatcher era. Naturally, they played Memory, but not Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina Even nostalgia has its limits.. Spare a thought for Arthur Younkin, jailed this month for being too fat.

Mr Younkin, a convicted cheque-forger, had been ordered by a court in Wichita, Kansas, to pay $11,000 (nearly pounds 7,000) in restitution, but said his 36-stone weight made it impossible for him to find a job and earn the money. Fine, said the judge, Mr Younkin could go on probation – on condition he lost weight. Alas, he was sighted once too often around town indulging in doughnuts, pizza and french fries He was weighed in the scales of justice and found wanting Instead of slimming down, he had added 20lb. The law would have no mercy, and this time Mr Younkin was given Kansas’ maximum term for violating a probation agreement, three months in jail.
His lawyers are appealing, on the grounds that weight and diet are personal matters which are not for a court to decide, and that therefore Mr Younkin’s spell behind bars is “cruel and unusual punishment” in breach of the eighth amendment of the Constitution. More to the point, though, if obesity were a prison offence, America’s overcrowded jails would long since have come apart at the seams.For once the evidence of my own eyes and government statistics agree. Americans are getting fatter and fatter.A third of adults are overweight, and according to a new federal survey, 11 per cent of all children are too – more than double the proportion 25 years ago. Taking their cue from their parents, children too exercise less, spend more time in front of the TV or computers and eat too much.

And who is to blame them? The hardest thing to find in this country is a modest snack.Take the American “sandwich”, not to be confused with the dainty European concoction of the same name. A sandwich here is a monument to America’s love for bigness – so thick you cannot get your month around it without sending part of the contents into your lap. Beg the man behind the deli bar to go easy on the filling and he looks at you as if you were some wimpish idiot. But sandwiches have nothing on the fast food industry, which spends $36bn (pounds 22.8bn) a year on advertising ever vaster servings to an ever more corpulent population.An item in the Washington Post last week provided some astonishing facts. Remember the curvy old bottle of Coca-Cola? It contained six and a half fluid ounces.