I REFER to the announcement by the GPO (Post Office) that they are to provide telephone services once again. For some of us they have never been out of the telephone business.

I always address my letters to 'The Area Telephone Manager, Post Office Telephones, t/a Bt plc.'

Likewise, BBC Radio 4 is the Home Service, British Gas is really the North Western Gas Board, Kelda the Craven Water Board, Northern Rail is a brand name of The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and Blackburn Transport the name for Darwen Corporation.

Finally, I should mention that Gordon Brown is Stafford Cripps in disguise.

KEVIN HEY, Castle Road, Colne.