10 AUGUST 1991, Page 24

PADDY ASHDOWN LITERACY PRIZE

READERS were invited to indicate the grammatical errors in a short letter from the leader of the Liberal Democrats (The Spectator, 22 June). We received a bulging bag of entries. Entrants de- tected between 18 and two dozen errors.

The winner of this year's Paddy Ashdown Literacy Prize is Mr John Hart, who receives as his prize a year's subscription to The Spectator.