MAY I thank Geoff Sharples (Poet's Corner, September 26). He restored humour and laughter into my life with his Lancashire dialect poem about 'Mickey Plum.' Shades of my young life.

Above Poet's Corner that night you had printed my letter, blasting the media for its repeated persecution of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England.

I later tuned to TV's Channel 4 and heard a so-called comedian poking his finger, or, rather, his tongue, at two 'saints,' Cardinal Basil Hume - a living saint - and even worse, at the recently-deceased and dearly loved Archbishop Derek Worlock.

How dare Channel 4? How dare the media allow such scurrilous attacks on two great men?

I switched off immediately. I hope that when that low-life joker receives his 30 pieces of silver, he enjoys his ill-gotten gains.

And we presume to judge the youth of today.

WINIFRED BRENNAN (Mrs), Temple Street, Nelson.

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