I HAVE been looking for a lost giggle ever since Turpin rode off from my Saturday Evening Press. I have now found a "Turps substitute" in Bill Hearld's Tuesday side-swipe.

His junior reporter's crop failure at the Selby baby farm plus the escape from a severe "scuttling" with a salty sea captain was eye-watering stuff (September 2). Encore, encore!

Dale Minks,

Ancress Walk,

York.

Updated: 10:43 Thursday, September 11, 2003