6 APRIL 1996, page 18

A Christian Shield For Animals

Andrew Linzey says that, at Easter; believers should remember animals too. After all, John Henry Newman did so over 150 years ago `THINK . . . of your feelings at cruelty......

Mind Your Language

`MUMMY, it was so funny when you said that even I'd know that omnibus was the ablative of omnis and that man wrote in to say it was the dative — I told all the girls at school.'......