IT seems incredible that spoon-bender, Uri Geller (Letters, April 16) can have published, letters in newspapers up and down the country, with the sole purpose of flogging a book endorsing vegan produce, allegedly!

Although I, too, endorse the many benefits derived from a vegan existence, I am not altogether sure that the irritating watch-stopper's motives are none other than a cleverly-conceived ploy to rekindle his flagging career.

JOHN VAUGHAN, Higher Church Street, Blackburn.

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