I WAS amazed to read the comments of the Bishop of Blackburn slamming soap operas for failing to depict long lasting marriages (LET September 27).

In a Sunday newspaper I read about the Rev Sonia Hall and the Rev Colin Rudd and their caravan antics in their Oxfordshire parish and them finally going off together.

Then I read in another newspaper about the Rev Roger Flower, a vicar of Dartmouth in Devon, falling for the wife of the Bishop of Hull, the Right Rev Richard Frith, and them setting up home together.

These are all real-life people, who have taken vows with God, not actors or actresses.

I am a true Coronation Street fan and would rather follow its morals than those of these hypocrites who preach to other people on right and wrong and then when lust overcomes them, they simply up and go without any thought of God, family, or their faithful parishioners.

Let's stick with Coronation Street - we are sensible enough to know we are watching fiction - and ignore the morals of these religious so-called people, before God's countryside becomes littered with caravans in order that we can all be together with whoever takes our fancy.

MRS R BAILEY (married 42 years), Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth.

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