In a time when public services are struggling to cope with cutbacks, I would like to share my recent positive experiences of the people working in some of those services.

LAST month marked the 50th anniversary of the contraceptive pill.

AS the growing international economic crisis deepens, it is precisely at this time that we need to look beyond ourselves and beyond our own immediate concerns to think of and reflect on the plight of the world's poor and destitute.

I REFER to Conor Kane and Veronica McDermott’s articles (October 8) in which they highlighted the results of new research, confirming fears that radioactive debris from the Windscale (now known as Sellafield) fire in 1957 may be twice as much as originally thought.