... Cool for cats SIR I can only imagine that Lawrence Blackmore's vituperative letter about me was on April Fool's joke. In my casting aspersions upon his undoubted knowledge, methinks he now doth protest too much! I wasn't trying to be catty I like cats ...

... is it significant that VAT, with all its anomalies, its stupidities and its rank injustices, should come into force on April Fool's Day? Yours sincerely. FRANK THORNTON c/o Max Kester Ltd, Piccadilly House, Piccadilly Circus, London, S.W.I. ...