APART from the Evening Press, the only newspaper I read is my surprisingly Conservative half's Sunday broadsheet. If I immersed myself in daily tabloids, I would get even less work done, but can't help thinking tabloids must be easier to manage.

Although I've no wish to see those broadsheets we have changed, I invariably end up wearing most newspapers I read, the exception being Saturday's Evening Press.

John wonders, when reading a paper second-hand, why it is quite scruffy and he can go from page two to fourteen with no trouble at all.

He longs for the creases to be ironed out of his newspapers by a discreet butler and presented to him on a silver tray.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves,

York.

Updated: 11:04 Friday, April 16, 2004