THE BBC doesn't like the Hutton verdict, so the judge is no good. It's pathetic. What if it had come out the other way?

It has been obvious for some time that Greg Dyke has had little discipline in his office. Witness the Kilroy case.

All he had to do was ensure Andrew Gilligan had the facts right to back his story and Hutton would not have been needed. How much more incompetent can you get than not to check the facts on such a high stakes issue?

Dyke says he was being bullied by the Government, but he was paid very well from our licence fees.

So how many people are making these anti-Government traitor noises?

If they don't like the properly elected government, instead of rubbishing us around the world, elect another and better one. If you can find one.

R S Pearson,

Towthorpe Road,

Haxby, York.

...CAN the editor explain why photographs of Lord Hutton and Tony Blair were put under the headline "Morally bankrupt"?

Lord Hutton has made a very serious and measured report. He identified serious failures of journalism and of management within the BBC.

The initial claim by Andrew Gilligan was unfounded. Not only did Gilligan get it wrong but then when the BBC was given the chance to correct that error it didn't do so.

It looks as if Greg Dyke thinks a reporter is okay if only some of his accusations are found to be false.

I can understand the dismay of a media used to printing page after page of attacks on the Government that they may have to tell the truth for once.

They are resisting this by suggesting the Government and Lord Hutton are the ones that are morally bankrupt.

P Dawson,

Fordlands Road,

Fulford, York.

...YORK MP Hugh Bayley spoke about the "truthfulness, honesty and integrity" of Tony Blair (January 29).

Leaving aside questions about Ecclestone, Hinduja, Mittal et al, I should like to ask him if he thinks any jury in the country would believe a man who said that when his wife spent £500,000 on property he only found out about it from the press?

B Emmerson,

Charles Street,

Selby.

...AM I the only one to be puzzled by the BBC "crisis"?

No weapons of mass destruction have been found. We know the Govern-ment's case for going to war in Iraq was exaggerated.

So is the BBC being blasted for saying the Government exaggerated the case for war? Am I going mad?

Paul Judges

The Rise,

Leavening,

Malton.

...AS legendary cricket commentator Brian Johnston may have have said:

Hutton Inquiry:

Owzat?

Not out!

S**t Bleeped out

Play on.

Anthony Still,

Barbers Drive,

Copmanthorpe, York.

Updated: 10:15 Wednesday, February 04, 2004