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... Parity is not the only one to be able to offer this SIR,--Parity, with the help of Durham County Council is not the first to offer stage and television training alongside able-bodied students; the BBC has been an 'Equal Opportunities' employer (including training) for many years. Trainees earn to learn. Leading figures in the disability arts say they have grave concerns over Durham's project; ...

... SIR-- So, Equity is to offer The Sun's critic, Garry Bushell, union membership (September 15, News, page 3). I am sure I cannot be the only one who would consider this a grave conflict of interests a television critic turned part time actor and one which must surely undermine both careers. I have a great deal of respect for Garry Bushell as a critic. That respect is diminishing with the steady ...

... SIR--I was surprised to read that Opera North still believes that the Romanian National Opera, whose first major tour of Britain we are promoting, has an exclusion clause in its contracts with Sunderland Empire ('Big boys' bully Romanian Opera, The Stage and Television Today, September 15, page 2). This is quite untrue. The only exclusion clause is the other way round. The Romanian Company ...

... SIR It is a sad fact that many young actors have to struggle hard to make a mark in our profession. The end of rep and cuts are undoubtedly factors in this but I believe there is another, more insidious and telling reason. Young actors often have to work in shoe shops and market research in order to make ends meet. Con sequently they have to make the most of the time available to them to ...

... SIR Thank you for publishing my letter in reply to Mr Pyne most of it (Ingratitude won't get Equity anywhere, September 8). As your cut came in the middle of a sentence, I think it may have been unintended. I was in full flow and you stopped me after an adjective! I was saying that he overpraised his inexperienced. ..and doubtless ill- meaning council majority. 'Illmeaning' towards me and a ...

... SIR-- I share Larry Harris' rage against ageism in the media (This is the BBC. Now for the bad news, August 25), but feel the only cure is legislation. After four years of eking a living as a freelance writer and broadcaster fol lowing redundancy at 46 from an organisation not dissimilar to the BBC, I recently landed thanks to The Stage And Television Today where 1 saw the advertisement a ...

... There is so much that can be learnt SIR -I am flattered by your banner heading of a U-tum. Please let me correct it, with apologies to Mrs Thatcher, This man is not for turning but is for leamine. Suzan Leavy has been to South Africa and has come back with some first hand information. It is nothing but right to examine what Jonathan Procter, Director General of BOP has to say. He claims that ...

... SIR--I sincerely hope that the report carried by you (November 4), regarding the BBC's attempts to sell off Doctor Who to the Americans is incorrect. In this, the 30th anniversary year of the series, this has to be (he worst possible news for fans of the good Doctor. Is this the best plan of action that the BBC could come up with to revive the series? If so. it would be better if they let it ...

... SIR May I, through your pages, thank the many Stage and Television Today readers who have sent messages of sup port following your revelations about the Crossrail scheme tun nel (Demolition danger for Brick Lane, November 4). We will get round to replying to everybody soon, but readers may like to know that the Theatres Trust has taken up our cause. Director John Earl has writ- ten to the ...

... SIR The main headline in The Stage on December 23 Equity saved by subs vote came as a shock to me. If Equity is in such a financial mess why is it so elite? I have been a member of a union all my working life (30 years) firstly in the printing union NGA and later the local government union NALGO. Memberships has always been very routine once it has been established that you are working in a ...