Sir: In order to correct a contrary impression created by some of your correspondents, I would like to make it clear that the University of Cambridge had for some time accepted the case, on strictly academic grounds, for establishing a post for the study of Theology and the Natural Sciences, and that Susan Howatch's generous benefaction was made in response to her discovering that we were actively seeking funds for such a post. There was ample evidence for the Crown Court to hold that the defendants' conduct was not justified. Dr Zakaria Erzinclioglu, whose work involves examining maggots, flies and woodlice, works on an average of 12 to 15 police investigations a year. He adds: 'I think the nation got over-emotional at that time.'Dapper, personable, articulate, Green was soon spotted as a high flyer in an organisation dominated, then as now, by mediocre organisation men. A fortnight already? 'Unfortunately,' he sighed.Has Christmas become a spreading, overblown blot on the calendar? At the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield earlier this week, parents and toddlers were queueing at the Santa's Winter Wonderland grotto in the lower arcade.

But the 1973 oil crisis, and the world-wide economic recession which followed, caught HB unprepared. For the hundreds at the recording on what was probably a Tuesday, this was worth a conspiratorial 'We're all in this artifice together' laugh; for the however many millions (one? two? nought point six-five?) at home on a Friday it looked smug, as if to say 'You had to be there'. The score, by Giuseppe Cali, is equally voguish, consisting of lions roaring, interspersed with the crash of maniacs let loose in the percussion section. He told those gathered that they would not find one line on the Holocaust in the revised edition of his book; he had published the new edition himself in order to disseminate 'truths other people are too scared to print'.Is this the man you would support in getting access to previously unseen personal diaries from Hitler's closest aide? Would such a man not be tempted to use that material to bolster his own extreme views, rather than produce an objective study of what may yet turn out to add greatly to the knowledge of the wartime activities of the Third Reich? These must be big questions for the Sunday Times.And another question: where is the newspaper's institutional memory? In 1983, Irving tipped off the same newspaper about the 'Hitler diaries', which the Sunday Times subsequently published but which turned out to be fake.Irving excuses his involvement in this embarrassing episode by saying that he soon came to the conclusion that the diaries were a fake and claims that he told the newspaper so. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. A plague of mice brought urgent appeals for owls; another call went out for hedgehogs, and several for bees to help with pollination.Of all these creatures, very few survived. In place of last year's faith in the new world order, older and uglier ideologies are on the rise.In Herzeg-Bosnia, where war still rages, this radicalisation of Croatian opinion has gone furthest.