11 NOVEMBER 1989, Page 27

Ducking the issue

Sir: I am sure I will not be alone among those who abhor the memory of Dr Beeching in pointing out that Mr Coleridge (Diary, 21 October) seems to have been taken for rather more than the £70 he paid for a pair of Aylesbury ducks to be sent by `Red Star' to his friends in Devon; there is no Okehampton railway station.

Horace Badger

28 Weymouth Street, London W1