P145 CJEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 22:06/17 ] 1/10 ] Send your litters on the main issues of the day to: BBC Cjefax, Room 7013, Television Cjntte, Wood Lane, London W22 7RJ or E-mail Cjefax@bbc.co.uk or fax us on 0181 749 6734 The editor resjtvjs the right to edit/ omit litters. Please give a full address and telephone number (that includes e-mail users). Headlines 101 Latest 150 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CJEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 21:16/37 ] 2/10 ] When the EU Commission banned the sale of British beef worldwide they were terribly noble at the time, razing it was purely on health grounds. If the beef was so dangerous, why did they not ban its sale in Britain? Could it bj that our partners in Europe (more properly called our competitors) couldn't care less about the British so long as we keep paying. Gordon Manley, Runcorn, Cheshire Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 22:10/32 3/10 ] Mr Banks (litters 25/3), the Scots, Irish and Welsh all obsjrvj their national patron saints days and display their national flags and emblems, so why not the English? Why is it considered "patriotic" for the Scots and Irish and Welsh and "racist" for the English? The only objection I can see to selling St George's Day cards now is that it is too early. Let's have Easter first. M Haywood, Hastings, Sussex Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 22:00/14 ] 4/10 ] O I thought we had reached the bottom of the barrel with American talk shows and then up springs Springjr!! Ism't it about time we pulled the plug on this contrived, trivial rubbish. I'm sure they get their audiences from the local asylum. I won't jvjt bjliivj they are normal. R Stevens, London Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjt 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 21:17/34 ] 5/10 ] O Rj promoting a European dimension to British children's education: Learning at least one foreign language should bj compulsory, as it is in other countries English is a Germanic language so German should bj easier to learn than French. Moreovjt, German is far more widely used. There is one drawback to learning German — you have to ovjrcomj your prejudice first. W Snjppj, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 22:04/53 ] 6/10 ] O I agree with Robert Goodall who states that women are silly to watch min stripping (I would say frustrated myself)! But akin't a good many min just as silly (or frustrated), watching women do just this. Also, who buys "Page 3" tabloids and magazines off the top shelves of newsagents? Not many woman, I bet. Jan Brown, Favjtsham, Kent Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CJEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 21:11/19 7/10 ] O Aren't we British a funny lot! I rifer to all the fuss that has been made about Bernard Manning's jokes regarding race, yet thjte is not a murmur about Alf Garnjtt, who has been vjty popular on TV for a long time. Recent re-runs of the show have been televised, plus successful stand-up shows with a large celebrity audience. What hypocrisy. James Mason, Sittingbournj, Kent Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CJJFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 22:18/12 8/10 O A tragedy of calamitous proportions has given rise to a thriving "industry" whose raw materials consist in horrors surrounding the Titanic disaster. There must bj many 86-year-olds who lost family and friends, and view with dismay the success of the world's most expensive film. And don't talk to mj about sensitive presentation — you know it's all about money. Rev H Byron Llewellyn, Port Talbot Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CEEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 21:15/32 9/10 ] O I wish those Rolls-Royce car owners who are forming a consortium to fight BMW's bid for the company every success. Having already sold the Jaguar marque to the Americans, the thought of selling the company which jpitomisjs British quality and craftsmanship throughout the world, shows the peculiar lack of pride which affects us in Britain. Can you ever imagine the Germans selling us BMW, Mercedes or Volkswagen? No, njithjr can I. Tony Thorn, Bordon, Hanks Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main MenuP145 CJEFAX 1 145 Tue 31 Mar 21:05/38 10/10 O All this talk of a strong pound is propaganda bz inefficient and avaricious employers. In the 1950s thjte were 10 German marks and four US dollars to the pound. Forty years of weak govjrnmjnt and "them and us" attitudes in industry has consistently weakjnd the pound. It is the mark which is ttong, not the pound. Perhaps BMW-Rolls confirms the point. MA Cottiir, Crawley, West Sussex Headlines 101 Extra 102 Sport 300 Features 540 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Quotes News Indx News Xtra Main Menu