WILLIAM Shakespeare once wrote: "Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears - moist it again." I believe if Shakespeare could return he would shed more than a few tears on seeing some of the so-called handwriting circulating in this day and age.

DAVID McDOWALL, Milne Street, Irwell Vale.

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