IN an age when children can view erotic dancing and near nudity on the BBC at 7.30 in the evening, the very good burghers of Liskeard have made a stand. To a crescendo of alleluias and council gavels, it is reported that no public performances by naked ladies around poles will be on offer to adults at The Lord Eliot Hotel after all. What a blessing that an alliance of shrinking congregations and image conscious councillors have saved us from ourselves. All that is left for us sinners of South East Cornwall is to be seduced by those brazenly titillating verses in The Songs of Solomon.

JOHN MORSE Callington